{"product_id":"devils-women-and-jews-reflections-of-the-other-in-medieval-sermon-stories-9780791434185","title":"Devils, Women, and Jews: Reflections of the Other in Medieval Sermon Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnalyzes and illustrates the demonization of women and Jews in medieval sermon stories, retelling over one hundred of these tales in modern English.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joan Young Gregg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/12\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791434185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Young Gregg \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor at New York City Technical College, City University of New York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCommunication and Culture: A Reading-Writing Text\u003c\/i\u003e; co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Human Condition: A Rhetoric with Thematic Readings; Past, Present, and Future: A Reading-Writing Text\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eScience and Society: A Reading-Writing Text\u003c\/i\u003e; and editor of \u003ci\u003eSoul Rebels: The Rastafari and To Listen, To Comfort, To Care\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45371905081459,"sku":"9780791434185","price":66.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5a4adebc-0fcb-410e-a989-cc6405145f77.jpg?v=1787052364","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/devils-women-and-jews-reflections-of-the-other-in-medieval-sermon-stories-9780791434185","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}