Center and Periphery

Katherine L. Jansen is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. The author of The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages (2000), and has recently published Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation (2009), co-edited with Joanna Drell and Frances Andrews, and Charisma and Religious Authority: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Preaching, 1200-1500 (2010), co-edited with Miri Rubin. She is at work on a new monograph entitled, The Practice of Peace in Late Medieval Italy.G. Geltner is Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is author of The Medieval Prison: A Social History (2008) and The Making of Medieval Antifraternalism: Polemic, Violence, Deviance, and Remembrance (2012), among other publications.Anne E. Lester is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women’s Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne (2011); and co-editor, with Caroline Goodson and Carol Symes, of Cities, Texts, and Social Networks: Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space, 400-1500 (2010). She is currently writing a book on the crusades and material culture entitled, Fragments of Devotion: Relics and Remembrance in the Time of the Fourth Crusade.

• Acknowledgements … xiList of Illustrations … xiiiAbbreviations … xvForeword by Jacques Le Goff … xviiMap … xxiList of Contributors … xxiIntroduction … 1Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner, and Anne E. LesterHistoriographical Introduction … 13John W. BaldwinPart One: Royal Power And Minorities1. Christian Love, Jewish “Privacy,” and Medieval Kingship … 25David Nirenberg2. The Castilian Monarchy and the Jews (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries) … 39Maya Soifer Irish3. Royal Power and Ritual Murder: Notes on the Expulsion of the Jews from the Royal Domain of France, … 1182 … 51E.M. Rose4. The Intimacy of Exception: The Diagnosis of Samuel Abenmenassé … 65Hussein FancyPart Two: The Politics Of Peacemaking5. Can the Church be Desperate, Warriors be Pacifist, and Commoners Ridiculously Optimistic? On the Historian’s Imagination and the Peace of God … 79Richard Landes6. Peacemaking, Performance, and Power in Thirteenth-Century San Gimignano … 93Katherine L. Jansen7. Captivity and Diplomacy in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon … 107Jarbel RodriguezPart Three: Religious Institutions And Society8. The Economic Power of a Hospital in Thirteenth-Century Provins … 121Adam J. Davis9. “In Some Way Even More than Before”: Approaches to Understanding St. Louis of Anjou, Franciscan Bishop of Toulouse … 135Holly J. Grieco10. “In Order to Keep the Memory”: Miracle Cults as Sources of Authority in the Crown of Aragon … 157Michelle Garceau11. Patrolling Normative Borders after the Black Death: The Bishop of Lucca’s Criminal Court … 169G. GeltnerPart Four: Crusading, Memory, And Identity12. Warrior or Saint? Joinville, Louis IX’s Character, and the Challenge of the Crusade … 183Jonathan Elukin13. Confessor King, Martyr Saint: Praying to Saint Maurice at Senlis … 195Anne E. Lester14. Men of France? Boundary Crossing in Constantinople in the 1240s … 211Erica Gilles15. Victory by Desire: Crusade and Martyrdom in the Fourteenth Century … 223Christopher MacEvittPart Five: Rethinking Issues Of Medieval Law And History16. Custom’s Two Bodies … 239Emily Kadens17. A Cautionary Note … 249Mark Gregory PeggAfterword – William Chester Jordan: A Life of Learning … Teofilo F. RuizWilliam Chester Jordan: A Bibliography