Jews in the Fleury Playbook

Tinkle, Theresa

doi:10.1353/cdr.2004.0008

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“…The Jews, envisioned correspondingly as deliberate unbelievers, figures who were not necessarily blind to the truth, but who willingly and maliciously opted to ignore it, became associated in the medieval Christian imagination with the irrational, the murderous, and ultimately, the infanticidal and the deicidal. These associations, which, as various critics have recognized, were disseminated in particular by Franciscan and Dominican preachers, who sought to replace the more benign and tolerant approach advocated by St Augustine with a more aggressive and confrontational model, circulated initially during the twelfth century before becoming dominant in the thirteenth (Cohen 1983;Gilchrist 1988;Stacey 1998;Despres 1998;Tinkle 2003Tinkle , 2004.…”

Section: Infanticide and Martyrdom In The Gran Flos Sanctorummentioning

confidence: 99%

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Martyrdom, Motherhood, and the Aetiology of Infanticide: The Legend of Saints Quiricus and Julitta in Early Iberian Art and Literature

Beresford

2023

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The legend of Saints Quiricus and Julitta circulated in two different forms. The oldest, the Acta apocrypha, offers an implausible account of martyrdom, depicting the soon-to-be-three-year-old Quiricus as a militantly loquacious evangelizer, and his mother, Julitta, as an avid and enthusiastic disciple. This is the source preferred by early Iberian artworks. Conversely, the accounts descended from a fifth-century epistle composed by Theodore of Mopsuestia depict the saints in an entirely different light. In this version Julitta becomes the centre of narrative interest while Quiricus is reimagined as a figure at a pre-linguistic stage of development. This is the source favoured by medieval Iberian prose accounts. The distinction between the two branches raises questions concerning the relationship between orthodoxy and heterodoxy as well as the specific individual qualities of art and literature. This article argues that critical positions that fail to account for the influence of differing narrative forms will reveal only a small and potentially misleading part of the fuller picture. It becomes important in view of this to adopt a more holistic and nuanced approach towards questions of interpretation, reaching across traditional disciplinary boundaries so as to gain an insight into the richness and complexity of medieval production.

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Section: Infanticide and Martyrdom In The Gran Flos Sanctorummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…That is the Church, laments her slain young lambs"] (cited in Tinkle 2004: 14). For the typological relationship between Rachel, Mary, and the mothers of the Innocents, see Temple (1959), Nolan (1996), Tinkle (2004), Park (2013: 482), andDoane (2017).…”

Section: St Julitta and The Problem Of Pious Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%