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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Although not about host desecration per se (unless one regards it in the light of a prototype), you might find useful the chapter on Representations of Jews in medieval Passion Narratives in Thomas Bestul's _Texts of the Passion:Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society_. Like several of the other works mentioned, it provides at least a literary & conceptual framework for the plays you are studying. Best, June L. Mecham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History University of Nebraska, Omaha Department of History, ASH 287 J 6001 Dodge Street Omaha, NE 68182-0213 [log in to unmask] -----medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture <[log in to unmask]> wrote: ----- To: [log in to unmask] From: Jessie Sherwood <[log in to unmask]> Sent by: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture <[log in to unmask]> Date: 03/21/2007 10:58PM Subject: Re: [M-R] Anti-Semitism in Medieval Literature and Economic Criticism medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Kevin, If you don't know it already Miri Rubin's Gentile Tales if very useful. I would also recommend, Christopher Ocker's There are a lot of useful material in Langmuir's Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990. Ocker's “Ritual Murder and the Subjectivity of Christ: A Choice in Medieval Christianity.” Harvard Theological Review. 91:2 (1998): 153-192. Stacey's "From Ritual Crucifixion to Host Desecration," Jewish History 12 (1998) R. Po-shia Hsia, The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany. The original accusations of host desecration are in Chroniques de Saint-Denis, in Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France, v. 20, (Paris, 1840), 658; Extraict d’une Chronique Anonyme, in Recueil des historiens, v. 21 (Paris 1855), 127. Extraict d’une Chronique Anonyme Française, in Recueil des historiens, v. 21, 132-3. As to the image of the mercantile Jew, Bernard of Clairvaux is infamous for equating Judaism with usury. I don't have the reference on-hand, but it is in Cohen's Living Letters of the Law. You might also find, Stacey's “Jewish Lending and Medieval English Economy.” A Commercializing Economy: England 1086 to c.1300. Richard Britnell and Bruce M.S. Campbell. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995; and Shatzmiller's Shylock Reconsidered useful. You might also find Sara Lipton's Images of Intolerance interesting. I've been working on accusations of ritual murder and the images of Jews as deicides, which are closely related to accusations of host desecration. If you'd like a longer bibliography, you can contact me off the list. Jessie Sherwood [log in to unmask] --- Kevin Teo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and > culture > > To the members on the list, > > For someone who is embarking upon his PhD research and presenting it at > the Leeds IMC this July, I am wondering about the extant corpus of > scholarship which has been done as pertaining to the medieval > stereotypes of the Jew as defacers or mutilators of the sacred Host, or > thieves of it. My research centers on the Croxton Play of the Sacrament > as a test case, in which economic culture and the concerns over the > gradually destabilising classes, followed by emerging guilds and all, > are mapped onto the matrix(es) of race-religion, specifically the > Jew-type. In this case, I am wondering when the first instance of a > mercantile Jew appeared in medieval literature(it need not be in Middle > English), outside of the Edict issued in 1290 Ad against Jews in > England. > > Kevin Jang > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! 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