2003 Curriculum and Calendar

Texts recommended for review before the beginning of the institute
1. Abulafia, Anna Sapir. Christians and Jews in the Twelfth Century Renaissance. London; New York: Routledge, 1995. ISBN: 0415000122.
2. Chazan, Robert. Daggers of Faith: Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing and the Jewish Response. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
3. Cohen, Jeremy, ed.  From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian Thought. Wolfenbutteler Mittelalter-Studien, Bd. 11. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996. (essays from parts 1 and 4)
4. Moore, R.I. The Formations of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250. Oxford, New York: B. Blackwell, 1987. ISBN: 0631171452.
5. Lasker, Daniel J.  Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity. New York: KTAV, 1977. ISBN: 0870684981.
6. Berger, David. The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979. Introduction. ISBN: 0827601042.
7. Krauss, Samuel. The Jewish-Christian Controversy from the Earliest Times to 1789. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 56. Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1995. ISBN: 3161464737.
8. Abulafia, David. The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms 1200-1500. London and New York: Longman, 1997. ISBN: 0582078210.
9. Scholem, Gershom. Origins of the Kabbalah. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1987. ISBN: 0691073147. Pp. 365-475.
10. Hames, H.J. The Art of Conversion: Christianity and Kabbalah in the Thirteenth Century. Leiden:  EJ Brill, 2000.
 

Required Text for Purchase:
1. Cohen, Jeremy. Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. ISBN: 0520216806

Week I. July 9-16 Asserting Oneself through Negating the Other (Robert Chazan)
Wednesday evening, 9 July: Welcome Dinner at 6:00 PM (Peter Oppenheimer, President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) and Introduction (Irven M. Resnick)
Thursday, 10 July: The Jews in Early Christianity

Required Readings:
Mark, Luke-Acts, Galatians, Romans 1-11;
Jeremy Cohen, Living Letters of the Law, pp. 6-9 (on Paul)

Required Readings:
Augustine, Against the Jews (Tractatus adversos Judaeos), in Saint Augustine, Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects, Fathers of the Church, vol. 27 (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1969): 387-414; and City of God (De
   civitate Dei), books XVII-XVIII (full electronic text can be found at http://www.ccel.org/fathers/NPNF1-02 or http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm).
Jeremy Cohen, Living Letters of the Law, pp. 23-65 (on Augustine).
Friday Afternoon: Scheduled visit to Bodleian offices to obtain readers' cards. Meet in  the Bullard Room at the Bodleian at 2:00 PM. Do not be late!

Required Readings:
Gregory the Great, selected letters, in Amnon Linder, The Jews in Legal Sources of
   the Early Middle Ages (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997): 417-443
Early Spanish church councils, in Amnon Linder, The Jews in Legal Sources of  the Early
   Middle Ages (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997): 482-538
Jeremy Cohen, Living Letters of the Law, pp. 73-94 (on Gregory the Great)

Required Readings:
Chazan, Robert. European Jewry and the First Crusade (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987): 225-242 and 50-179.

Week II. July 17-23. Towards Exclusion and Demonization (Jeremy Cohen)
          Background or Supplementary reading:

Anna Sapir Abulafia, Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Robert Chazan, Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism
Jeremy Cohen, The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism, pts. 1-2
_____, ed., From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian
Thought, pt. 2
_____, Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity, pts. 3-4
John Y.B. Hood, Aquinas and the Jews
Walter Pakter, Medieval Canon Law and the Jews

Required Readings:
Amos Funkenstein, Perceptions of Jewish History, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993): 169-201
R.I. Moore, "Anti-Semitism and the Birth of Europe," in Christianity and Judaism, Studies in Church History, 29 (Oxford: Ecclesiastical History Society, 1992): 33-57.

Required Readings:
Odo of Tournai, A Disputation with a Jew, Leo, tr. Resnick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994): 85-97.
Peter Alfonsi, Dialogues with Moses the Jew, tituli 1-5 (selections;  typescript, pp. 1-16, 26-35, 59-74)
Peter Abelard, Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian, tr. Pierre J. Payer (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1979): 19-59.

Required Readings:
Bernard of Clairvaux. Letter 363, in The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, trs. Bruno Scott James (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953): 460-463.
Bernard of Clairvaux. On the Song of Songs, in The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian Fathers Series, 4 (Spencer, MA: Cistercian Publications, 1971), vol. 2: Sermons 13-14 (pp. 87-103); vol. 3: Sermons 59-60 (pp. 120-138).
Peter the Venerable, Letter 130 (5 pages, in typescript)
Hermann of Cologne, A Short Account of His Own Conversion, in Conversion and Text: the Cases of Augustine of Hippo, Herman-Judah, and Constantine Tsatsos,  tr. Karl F. Morrison (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1992): 76-113.

Required Readings:
Solomon Grayzel, The Church and the Jews in the Thirteenth Century, rev. ed. (New York: Hermon Press, 1966): 296-299, 86- 143, 306-313, 178-295 (skim; read carefully: letters 96, 104 119 with long n.)

Required Readings:
The Barcelona Disputation of 1263: Hebrew and Latin Reports in Translation, in Hyam Maccoby, Judaism on Trial (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1993): 97-150.

Required Reading: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1-2.102.1-3. at http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/home.html

Week III. July 24-30. Signs of Otherness in Medieval Art and Literature
Thursday, 24 July: Signs of Otherness. Jews in Gothic Art (Sara Lipton)
Topics to be covered include typological iconography, identifying signs, Synagoga personified, host desecration imagery, Passion iconography.

Required Readings::
1. Suzanne Lewis, "Tractatus Adversus Judaeos in the Gulbenkian
Apocalypse," Art Bulletin 68 (1986): 543-566.
2. Sara Lipton, Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and
Judaism in the Bible moralisee (Los Angeles and Berkeley, 1999), pp. 1-29.
(Chapters One and Two).
3. Diane Hughes, "Distinguishing Sign: Ear-rings, Jews, and Franciscan
Rhetoric in the Italian Renaissance City," Past and Present 112 (1986):
3-59.
4. Sara Lipton, "The Temple is My Body: Gender, Carnality, and Synagoga in
the Bible moralisee," in Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other, ed. Eva
Frojmovic (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002), pp. 129-163.

Required Readings::
1. Sara Lipton, Images of Intolerance, pp. 82-111 (Chapters Four and Five).
2. Elizabeth Pastan, "Tam Haereticos Quam Judaeos: Shifting Symbols in the
Glazing of Troyes Cathedral," Word and Image 10 (1994): 66-83.
3. Walter Cahn, "Heresy and the Interpretation of Romanesque Art," in
Romanesque and Gothic.  Essays for George Zarnecki. Ed. Neil Stratford,
(Woodsridge, Suffolk and Wolfeboro, N.H., 1987), pp. 27-33.
4. Dorinda Neave, "The Witch in 16th Century German Art," Woman's Art
Journal 9:1 (1988): 3-9.

Required Readings::
1. Michael Camille, The Gothic Idol (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)  pp. 129-164 (Chapter Three).
2. Paul Kaplan, "Black Africans in Hohenstaufen Art," Gesta 26:1 (1987): 29-36.
3. The Song of Roland, trans. Glyn Burges (London: Penguin, 1990), pp. 29-50 (stanzas 1-52).
4. William Chester Jordan, "The Last Tormenter of Christ," Jewish Quarterly
Review 78 (1987): 21-47.

Meeting 1:  The Vernon Manuscript:  Vernacular Sermons, Marian Miracles,
Jewish Christian Debate
          Required Readings:
          Primary: The Middle English Miracles of the Virgin, ed. Beverly Boyd (San Marino, CA:  1964). The Vernon Manuscript, pp. 33-49.
          Furnivall, F.J., ed. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Manuscript (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co. for the Early English Text Society, 1892-1901;
          [New York, Kraus Reprint Co., 1973]).  Part II: "A Disputation between and Christian and a Jew," pp.  485-492.
          (Discussion of the Corpus Christi sermon in the manuscript time permitting)

Secondary:
Miri Rubin, Gentile Tales, The Narrative Assault on Late-Medieval Jews (Yale
University Press, 1999) Chapter 5, "Making the Narrative Work," pp. 104-31.
(optional)  P.R. Robinson, "The Vernon Manuscript as a 'Coucher Book," in
Studies in the Vernon Manuscript, ed. Derek Pearsall (Cambridge:  Boydell
and Brewer, 1990), pp. 15-28.
Denise Despres, "The Protean Jew in the Vernon Manuscript," in Chaucer and
the Jews, Sources, Contexts, Meanings, ed. Sheila Delany (London:
Routledge, 2002), pp.145-164.
Sylvia Tomasch, "Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew," in Delany,
Chaucer and the Jews, pp. 69-85.

Secondary:
Denise Despres, "Cultic AntiJudaism and Chaucer's Litel Clergeon," Modern
Philology 91 (1994): 413-27.
Miri Rubin, Gentile Tales, Chapter 2, "From Jewish Boy to Bleeding Host," pp. 7-39.
William Chester Jordan, "The Pardoner's 'Holy Jew," in Delany, Chaucer and
the Jews, pp. 25-42.

Week IV. July 31-August 6.

Thursday, 31 July: The Representation of Jews in Post-Expulsion Middle English Devotional Culture (Denise Despres)

Meeting 3:  Jews in Mystical and Meditative Texts
          Required Readings:
          Primary: The Book of Margery Kempe, ed. Lynn Staley, Norton Critical Edition (NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001):  pp. 44-60;89-100;132-146.
          Birgitta of Sweden, Life and Selected Revelations, Ed. M.T.J. Harris, Trans. A.R. Kezel, Classics of Western Spirituality (New York:  Paulist
          Press, 1990), "The Seventh Book of Revelations," pp. 171-191.
          Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, Volume I, trans. William Granger    Ryan (Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. 269-277.
          (Handout of "Siege of Jerusalem" image in British Library Ms. Egerton 2781).
          Bonaventure, Saint. Meditations on the Life of Christ, ed. Isa Ragusa and Rosalie B. Green (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961): 290-338.

Secondary:  D. Despres, "Immaculate Flesh and the Social Body:  Mary and the
Jews in Cambridge Fitzwilliam Ms. 48, The Carew-Poyntz Hours," Jewish History 12 (1998): 47-69.
Thomas Bestul, Texts of the Passion, Latin Devotional Literature and
Medieval Society (Philadelphia: University  of Pennsylvania Press , 1996); Chapter 2, "Medieval Narratives of the Passion of Christ" (optional) and  Chapter 3, "The Representation of Jews in Medieval Passion Narratives," pp. 26-110.
Elisa Narin Van Court, "The Siege of Jerusalem and Augustinian Historians: Writing About Jews in Fourteenth-Century England," in Delany, Chaucer and the Jews, pp. 165-184.
Optional: Nicholas Love, Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi, a critical edition based on Cambridge University Library Additional mss. 6578 and 6686, ed. Michael G. Sargent (New York: Garland, 1992); passion narrative.

Secondary:
M. Rubin, Corpus Christi  (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Chapter 4, "The Living Feast," pp. 243-287.

Recommended Readings:
Seth Lehrer, "'Represented now in yower syght':  The Culture of
Spectatorship in Late Fifteenth Century England," in Bodies and Disciplines:
Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England, ed.
Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace (University  of Minn. Press, 1996), pp. 29-62.
Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God, Social Relations and Symbolic Act in the
York Corpus Christi Plays (University  of Chicago Press , 2001), Part III, "Sacramental Theater," pp. 59-117.

Friday, 1 August: The Beginnings of the Jewish Critique of Christianity (Daniel Lasker)

Required Readings:
Lasker, Daniel J., and Sarah Stroumsa, The Polemic of Nestor the Priest.  (2 vols.; Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi  Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, 1996) 1: 13-89.
Saadia Gaon, The Book of Beliefs and Opinions, trans. by Samuel Rosenblatt, Yale Judaica Series 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948), pp. 103-110; 157-167; 312-322.
Recommended Readings:
Herford, R. Travers, Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, (different editions), pp. 35-96.
Lasker, Daniel J., "The Jewish Critique of Christianity Under Islam," Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 57 (1991): 121-153.

Tuesday, 5 August: Public Disputations and Philosophical Polemics (Daniel Lasker)

Required Readings:
Crescas, Hasdai, The Refutation of the Christian Principles. Trans. Daniel J. Lasker (Albany: State University of New York, 1992): 23-66; 94-121.
Lasker, Daniel J., "Averroistic Trends in Jewish-Christian Polemics in the Late Middle Ages," Speculum 55:2 (1980): 294-304.
 ______"Transubstantiation, Elijah's Chair, Plato, and the Jewish-Christian Debate," Revue des Etudes Juives, 143:1-2 (January-June, 1984): 31-58.
Recommended Readings:
Rosenthal, Judah, "The Talmud on Trial," Jewish Quarterly Review 47 (1956): 58-76; 145-69.

Required Readings:
Abulafia, Anna Sapir, Jews and Christians in the Twelfth-Century
Renaissance. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 11-47.
R.W Southern, Saint Anselm. A Portrait in a Landscape.  Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990.  Pp. 198-202.
G.R. Evans, Anselm.  Outstanding Christian Thinkers.  Morehouse-Barlow: Wilton, CT, 1984, pp. 49-52.
Anselm, Proslogion, trans. J. Hopkins and H.W. Richardson, Anselm of Canterbury, volume one: Monologion, Proslogion, Debate with Gaunilo, and a Meditation on Human Redemption, Toronto and New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1974. Pp. 91-4.
Anselm, Letter to Fulk, Bishop of Beauvais, trans. W. Frölich, The Letters of Saint Anslem of Canterbury, volume 1, Cistercian Publications: Kalamazoo, Mich., 1990.  Pp. 314-5.
Anselm, On the Incarnation of the Word, trans. J. Hopkins and H.W. Richardson, Anselm of Canterbury, Trinity, Incarnation, and Redemption:  Theological Treatises, HarperTorchbooks: New York etc., 1970.  Pp. 8-11.
Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, trans. J. Hopkins and H. Richardson, Toronto and New
York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1976. Pp. 52-3, 133-5, 137.

Required Readings:
Abulafia, Anna Sapir, Jews and Christians in the Twelfth-Century
Renaissance. London: Routledge, 1995. Pp. 77-93.
Selections of Gilbert Crispin, Disputation between a Christian and a Jew
(19 typed pages of translation will be provided).
Odo of Tournai, A Disputation with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of
Christ, the Son of God, trans. Irven M. Resnick. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.  Pp. 85-97.
Peter Abelard, Collationes, ed. and trans. J. Marenbon and G. Orlandi. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp.1-7; 16-25.

Thursday, 7 August: Cancelled (Religious Holiday)

Friday 8 August: The Jew and the Heretic as the Other in Christian Society (Chaim Hames)

Required Readings:
Bernard Gui, Practica inquisitionis heretice pravitatis, in W.L. Wakefield and A.P. Evans (ed. and trans.), Heresies of the High Middle Ages, New York 1969, pp. 375-404, 439-445
Moore, R.I. "Literacy and the Making of Heresy c. 1100 - c. 1150," in P. Biller and A. Hudson (eds), Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,  1994): 19-37.
Recommended reading:
Lambert, Malcolm. Medieval Heresy, 2nd ed. (Cambridge Mass.: B. Blackwell, 1992).

Required Readings:
Ramon Llull, Vita coetanea, in A. Bonner, Doctor Illuminatus, Princeton 1993, pp. 1-44.
Cohen, Jeremy. The Friars and the Jews (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press,  1982): 129-168, 199-225.
Chazan, Robert. Daggers of Faith (Berkeley: University of California Press,  1989): 115-136.

Required Readings: A selection of texts gathered from Llull's works( Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men; Book of the Lover and the Beloved), in  A. Bonner, Doctor Illuminatus, (Princeton: Princeton University Press,  1993):  85-171; 188-237. N.B., also include the three pages of diagrams which immediately precede p. 85.
H. Hames, 'Conversion via Ecstatic Experience in Ramon Llull's "Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis"', Viator 30 (1999) pp. 181-200
Idel, Moshe. "Abraham Abulafia on the Jewish Messiah and Jesus," in Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah (Albany: State University of New York Press,  1988):  45-61.
Abraham Abulafia, on the three rings parable (Hames’s translation)
Recommended reading:
J.N. Hillgarth, Ramon Llull and Lullism in Fourteenth-Century France (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971).