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Cornell University Press, Published 1986. Paperback, 301 pp.; 23 cm; Cornell Paperbacks edition, second paperback printing.
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In Very Good condition. Brown paper covers with tan lettering on the front and spine. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corners; mild surface wear with some color loss along edges and spine. Binding tight. A 1-inch square black ink mark on the inside front cover. Otherwise unmarked. Cohen argues that a fundamental shift in the Christian perception of Judaism and Jews occurred in thirteenth-century Western Europe, driven by the newly formed Dominican and Franciscan mendicant orders. Drawing on Latin scholastic sources alongside Jewish responses, the study traces the development of mendicant anti-Judaism from its early-medieval Augustinian background through the inquisitorial campaigns, the attack on Rabbinic literature, and the work of Pablo Christiani, Raymond Martini, Nicholas of Lyra, and Raymond Lull. Winner of the 1983 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship. Contents: Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: The Emergence of Mendicant Anti-Judaism (The Early Medieval Background; The Mendicant Orders; The Attack on Rabbinic Literature; The Spread of Inquisitorial Activity); Part Two: Ideological Refinements (The School of Raymond de Penaforte: Pablo Christiani; The School of Raymond de Penaforte: Raymond Martini; Synthesis and Diffusion: Nicholas of Lyra); Part Three: The Ideology in Perspective: Its Applications and Its Significance (Raymond Lull; Involving the Laity: Mendicant Poetry and Preaching; Conclusion: Mendicant Anti-Judaism and the Evolving Self-Consciousness of Latin Christendom); Appendix: Textual Parallels in Nicholas of Lyra's Quodlibetum and Raymond Martini's Pugio fidei; Bibliography; Index.