Contemporary 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.
The 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.
In 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.
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