Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Steven McMichael, OFM Conv., is Assistant Professor in the Theology Department at the University of St. Thomas. His interests include interreligious dialogue, especially Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian relations. He has published in the area of medieval Jewish-Christian relations, particularly on the writings of Alfonso de Espina.Susan Myers is Assistant Professor in the Theology Department at the University of St. Thomas and works in the area of New Testament and early Christianity. Her interests include Syriac-speaking Christianity, early heterodox movements, and early liturgical and doctrinal developments.

• IntroductionContributorsAbbot Joachim of Fiore and the Conversion of the Jews, E. Randolph DanielThe antichrist and the Jews in Four Thirteenth-Century Apocalypse Commentaries, David BurrArchbishop Eudes Rigaud and the Jews of Normandy, 1248-1275, William Chester JordanIntimate Enemies: Mendicant-Jewish Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean Spain, Larry J. SimonJews and Judaism in Peter Auriol’s Sentences Commentary, Nancy L. TurnerFranciscan Economics and Jews in the Middle Ages: From a Theological to an Economic Lexicon, Glacomo TodeschiniContempt for Friars and contempt for Jews in Late Medieval Germany, Christopher OckerThe Evolution of Francesc Eiximenis’s Attitudes Towards Judaism, David J. VieraSamuel Granada and the Dominican Inquisitor: Jewish Magic and Jewish Heresy in Post-1391Valencia, Mark D. MeyersonLeonardo’s Dati’s Sermon on the Circumcision of Jesus (1417), Thomas M. IzbickiOMF Conv., Alfonso de Espina on the Mosaic Law, Steven J. McMichaelAnti-Jewish Preaching in the Fifteenth Century and Images of Preachers in Italian Renaissance Art Roberto RusconiJews, Franciscansm, and the First Monti di Pieta in Italy (1462-1500) Ariel ToaffPapal Mendicants or Medicant Popes: Continuity and Change in Papal Policies toward the Jews at the end of the Fifteenth Century Keneth R. StowThe Friars and the Jews: Messianism in Spain and Italy Circa 1500 John EdwardsLimpieza versus Mission: Chruch, Religious Orders, and Conversion in the Sixteenth Century Anna FoaIndex