ISBN:
0791434184
,
0791434184
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 275 S.
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
1997
Series Statement:
SUNY series in medieval studies
DDC:
251/.08/0902
Keywords:
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Geschichte 500-1500
;
Antisemitisme
;
Exempelen
;
Predicación - Europa - Historia
;
Sermones medievales - Historia y crítica
;
Vrouwenhaat
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Geschichte
;
Kirchengeschichte
;
Christianity and antisemitism History
;
Demonology History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500
;
Exempla in literature
;
Preaching History Middle Ages, 600-1500
;
Sermons, Medieval History and criticism
;
Women in Christianity.
;
Quelle
;
Predigt
;
Exempel
;
Frauenfeindlichkeit
;
Antijudaismus
;
Christentum
;
Juden
;
Frau
;
Dämonologie
;
Teufel
;
Europa
;
Europe Church history 600-1500
;
Europe Social life and customs
;
Predigt
;
Exempel
;
Frau
;
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Quelle
;
Predigt
;
Exempel
;
Juden
;
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Quelle
;
Christentum
;
Frauenfeindlichkeit
;
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Quelle
;
Christentum
;
Antijudaismus
;
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Quelle
;
Christentum
;
Dämonologie
;
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Quelle
;
Teufel
;
Predigt
;
Geschichte 500-1500
Abstract:
Contemporary misogyny and antisemitism have their roots in the demonization of women and Jews in medieval Christendom. In church art and mass preaching, the construct of the devil as an outcast from heaven and the source of all evil was linked both to the conception of women as sensual and malicious figures betraying man's soul on its arduous journey to Salvation and to the notion of Jews as treacherous dissidents in the Christian landscape. These stereotypes, widely disseminated for over three hundred years, persist today. The exemplum, or cautionary story incorporate into preachers' manuals and popular homilies, was an important mode of religious teaching for clerical and lay folk alike. Sermon narratives drawn from Hindu mythology, Arab storytelling, and secular folktales entertained all classes of medieval society while dispensing theological and cultural instruction
Abstract:
In Devils, Women, and Jews, the vital genre of the medieval sermon story is, for the first time, made accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike. Rendered in modern English, the tales provide an invaluable primary resource for medievalists, anthropologists, psychologists, folklorists, and students of women's studies and Judaica
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