Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Werewolf Renaissance
In the late twelfth century, northern European Jewish mystics engaged in a sustained, unprecedented effort to explore the theological meaning of werewolves. This article seeks to anchor this surprising preoccupation in contemporary European religious culture, arguing that medieval Jews and Christian...
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2014
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Journal of the history of ideas
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