Suchergebnisse

It is an unusual book in many respects. It is a specific study based on original and in most cases unedited sources, but it can also be read as a general introduction. It crosses boundaries between different fields of learning and traditionally accepted time periods of history. Even if it is essentially a book on medieval man, it stretches far beyond the middle ages as conventionally understood. The final chapter traces the slow disappearance of the medieval mentality until the early nineteenth century.

This book explores the complexity of preaching as a phenomenon in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter. This was not only an ""encounter"" as physical meeting or confrontation (such as the forced attendance of Jews at Christian sermons that took place across Europe), but also an ""imaginary"" or theological encounter in which Jews remained a figure from a distant constructed time and place who served only to underline and verify Christian teachings. Contributors also explore the Jewish response to Christian anti-Jewish preaching in their own preaching and religious instruction.