Devils, Women, and Jews: The Demonization of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories

Джоан Янг Грегг, "Черти, женщины, и евреи. Отражения Другого в историях средневековых проповедей", 1997: Analyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English. 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 incorporated 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. 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. Critical introductions and explanatory headnotes contextualize the tales, and comprehensive endnotes and a bibliography allow readers to follow up analogue and subject studies in their own areas of interest. Contents Preface • ix Chapter One. Introduction • 1 Chapter Two. Devils in Medieval Sermon Stories • 23 Exempla about Devils D1. The Devil and St. Macarius in Church • 46 D2. St. Macarius Defeats the Devil as Physician • 47 D3. A Devil in the Form of a Toad • 49 D4. An Ungrateful Son • 50 D5. The Devil Disguised as a Pilgrim • 51 D6. The Torment of Bishop Udo • 52 D7. An Adulterer Punished by the Devil • 54 D8. A Usurer Outsmarts Himself • 55 D9. The Vision of a Drunken Pilgrim • 56 D10. A Sinful Clerk's Cloak of Feathers • 56 D11. The Devil and a Knight's Charity • 58 D12. A Devil Bows to the Host • 59 D13. The Stone of Knowledge • 62 D14. The Magician and His Student • 62 D15. The Skeptical Knight and the Devil • 63 D16. The Devil Who Rode with a Knight • 64 D17. The Devil and a Clerk in Love • 65 D18. Pope Sylvester and the Devil • 67 D19. The Devil's Recordkeeping • 68 D20. The Devil's Competition • 69 D21. Devils Debate for a Usurer's Soul • 70 D22. The Judgment of Peter the Tax Collector • 72 D23. The Devil and St. Lawrence's Pot • 73 D24. A Pilgrim to St. James Saved from the Devil • 74 D25. The Devil Claims a Lecherous Priest • 77 D26. The Unrepentant Knight • 78 Source Notes to Exempla About Devils • 79 Chapter Three. Women in Medieval Sermon Stories • 83 Exempla about Women W1. A Gown with a Train of Devils • 110 W2. The Lady Who Took Too Long to Get Dressed • 111 W3. A Knight's Two Wives • 111 W4. A Priest's Vision of His Mother • 114 W5. A Woman Who Ate Her Husband's Eel • 115 W6. A Woman Damned for Dying in Anger • 116 W7. The Obedience of Wives • 117 W8. An Abbess' Severed Corpse • 118 W9. A Wife Reveals Her Husband's Secret • 119 W10. A Riddle of a King, Wine, and Women • 120 W11. A Woman Leads a Knight into Murder • 121 W12. A Saint's Skeptical Wife • 122 W13. The Collier's Vision • 123 W14. The Spectre of a Priest's Concubine • 124 WIS. A Lecherous Woman Fails to Reform • 125 W16. A Bawd's Warning to Her Husband • 126 W17. A Roper's False Wife • 127 W18. The Witch and the Cowsucking Bag • 131 W19. The Witch of Berkeley • 132 W20. St. Bernard Delivers a Woman from a Fiend • 133 W2I. The Devil Seduces a Priest's Daughter • 134 W22. A Mother Forgiven for Incest • 134 W23. The Temptations of Devils as Women • 135 W24. Women Called "Secular Monks" • 136 W2S. A Monk and a Saracen's Daughter • 137 W26. A False Accusation against St. Macarius • 142 W27. A Bishop Tempted by a Demonic Beauty is Saved by St. Andrew· 144 W28. The Humble Nun • 147 W29. A Nun Tears Out Her Eyes to Protect Her Chastity • 148 W30. Of a Woman Who Would Rather Drown than Lose Her Chastity • 148 W31. Thais, the Harlot Who Reformed • 149 W32. The Trials of st. Theodora • 151 W33. An Argument between the Virgin and the Devil • 153 W34. The Virgin Helps a Deceived Anchoress • 155 W35. The Virgin Defends a Matron against the Devil • 156 W36. A Lustful Abbess • 157 W37. The Virgin Puts Devils in the Stocks • 162 Source Notes to Exempla about Women • 164 Chapter Four. Jews in Medieval Sennon Stories • 169 Exempla about Jews J1. A Jew Predicts St. Basil's Death • 203 J2. Two Tales of St. Nicholas • 204 J3. The Jew at the Devil's Council • 206 J4. st. Helen and the True Cross • 211 J5. Jews Attack a Christian's Crucifix • 212 J6. Jews Attempt to Rebuild Jerusalem • 214 J7. A Jew Falls into a Stinking Pit • 215 J8. The Jew Who Would Be a Bishop • 216 J9. Theophilus, a Jew, and the Devil • 217 J10. Jews Expecting the Messiah Are Deceived by a Clerk • 218 J11. The Canon and the Jew's Daughter • 220 J12. A Jew in Church • 221 J13. Parisian Jews Bloody the Host • 222 J14. An Easter Miracle of the Host Converts the Jews • 222 J15. A Jew's Dog Rejects the Host • 224 J16. A Jew Tests the Power of the Host with Pigs • 226 J17. A Jew Debates the Virginity of Mary • 226 J18. The Virgin Rescues a Jewish Merchant • 227 J19. The Monk, the Virgin, and the Jew • 229 J20. A Jewish Boy Is Saved from a Furnace (The Jew of Bourges) • 232 Source Notes to Exempla about Jews • 233 Notes • 237 Abbreviations • 255 Bibliography • 257 Index • 269 Обзор: http://medievalsourcesbibliography.org/sources.php?id=-1860170449 Рецензии: http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol28/iss1/12/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/42942839?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Автор: http://www.seniorwomen.com/news/index.php/author/joan-gregg/