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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Editorial Procedure and Conventions -- Medieval Scandinavia and Jews -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jews in Medieval Denmark and Sweden -- Language -- 3 Writing about Jews: A Guide to East Norse Terminology -- 4 The Language of the Jews: Knowledge about Hebrew in Medieval Scandinavia -- Identifying “the Jew” -- 5 The Jewish Body: From Top to Toe -- Killing Christ -- 6 Modelling Feelings and Behaviours: Jews and the Passion in Sermons and Devotional Literature -- Demonstrating Christian Truth -- 7 Witnesses of Truth and Doctrine: Miracles, Saints’ Lives, and Exempla -- 8 Darkness and Light: Miracles, Saints’ Lives, and Exempla -- The Jewish Peril: Past, Present, and Future -- 9 Jews in History: Exemplary Figures, Keepers of Relics, Tormentors of the Christ Child, and Absent Jerusalemites -- 10 The Jewish Plot to Destroy All Christendom: The Black Death and Well-Poisoning -- 11 The Jewish Threat to Destroy All Christendom: The Red Jews, Antichrist, and the Apocalypse -- Conclusion -- 12 Conclusion -- VOLUME II: TEXTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 1 A Jew Converts and Speaks to his Sons from Heaven -- 2 A Jew Predicts St Basil’s Death -- 3 A Pregnant Jewish Woman’s Father Converts -- 4 A Sermon for Good Friday -- 5 A Sermon for Passion Sunday -- 6 Esther -- 7 Jerusalem in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville -- 8 Jesus Raises a Jew from the Dead -- 9 Judith -- 10 Mary of Bethezuba -- 11 Petronia and the Ring -- 12 Sermons for the Feast of the Circumcision -- 13 St Barnabas and the Jews -- 14 St Gamaliel the Elder Speaks to Lucian the Priest -- 15 St James the Great and the Sorcerer Hermogenes -- 16 St James the Great Converts Josiah the Jew -- 17 St James the Just and the Jews of Jerusalem -- 18 St Macarius and the Talking Skull -- 19 St Sylvester and the Disputation with the Twelve Jewish Scholars -- 20 The Antichrist -- 21 The Chains of St Peter -- 22 The Clay Birds -- 23 The Converted Jew and the Devil -- 24 The Disputation and the Miracle -- 25 The Emperor Hadrian -- 26 The Emperor Vespasian and Titus -- 27 The Enclosed Jews -- 28 The Fifteen Places -- 29 The Finding of the Holy Cross -- 30 The Flying Host and the Jew’s Son -- 31 The Helmeted Preface -- 32 The Hermit and the Jewess -- 33 The Host Desecration -- 34 The Jew and the Lightning Strike -- 35 The Jew and the Staff Filled with Gold -- 36 The Jew at the Devils’ Council -- 37 The Jew, the Axe, and St Nicholas -- 38 The Jew, the Fish, and the Host -- 39 The Jew, the Host, the Devil, and the Sieve -- 40 The Jew Who Attacked the Virgin Mary’s Bier -- 41 The Jew Who Stabbed the Icon -- 42 The Jewish Boy in the Oven -- 43 The Jews Who Found and Attacked an Image of Christ -- 44 The Life of Judas Iscariot -- 45 The Little Jewish Girl Rachel Who Joined a Nunnery -- 46 The Merchant’s Surety -- 47 The Pilgrims’ Guide to the Holy Land -- 48 The Punishment of the Jews -- 49 The Stoning of St Stephen -- 50 The Three Young Men in the Oven -- 51 The Virgin Mary Releases and Converts a Jewish Prisoner -- 52 Theophilus and the Devil -- 53 Well poisoning -- 54 Yael -- List of Works -- Bibliography -- Index
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