Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Steven J. McMichael and Susan E. Myers.

• Superior document: The medieval Franciscans, v. 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Myers, Susan E.; McMichael, Steven J.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Franciscans ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Historians--some specializing in the Middle Ages, some in religion, and some in a particular European country--describe the major areas scholars are working in with regard to the friars' preaching to and writing about the Jews from the early days of the mendicant order about the turn of the 13th century to the 16th century. Their topics include the

Table of Contents

Contents; Introduction; Contributors; Abbot Joachim of Fiore and the Conversion of the Jews; The Antichrist and the Jews in Four Thirteenth-Century Apocalypse Commentaries; Archbishop Eudes Rigaud and the Jews of Normandy, 1248-1275; Intimate Enemies: Mendicant-Jewish Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean Spain; Jews and Judaism in Peter Auriol's Sentences Commentary; Franciscan Economics and Jews in the Middle Ages: From a Theological to an Economic Lexicon; Contempt for Friars and Contempt for Jews in Late Medieval Germany

The Evolution of Francesc Eiximenis's Attitudes Toward JudaismSamuel of Granada and the Dominican Inquisitor: Jewish Magic and Jewish Heresy in Post-1391 Valencia; Leonardo Dati's Sermon on the Circumcision of Jesus (1417); Alfonso de Espina on the Mosaic Law; Anti-Jewish Preaching in the Fifteenth Century and Images of Preachers in Italian Renaissance Art; Jews, Franciscans, and the First Monti di Pietà in Italy (1462-1500); Papal Mendicants or Mendicant Popes: Continuity and Change in Papal Policies toward the Jews at the end of the Fifteenth Century

The Friars and the Jews: Messianism in Spain and Italy Circa 1500Limpieza versus Mission: Church, Religious Orders, and Conversion in the Sixteenth Century; Index