Devils Women And Jews - Joan Young Gregg

Analyzes And Illustrates The Demonization Of Women And Jews In Medieval Sermon Stories, Retelling Over One Hundred Of These Tales In Modern English.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.