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 | 
