Irven Michael Resnick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1090016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irven Michael Resnick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irven Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Resnick |
| SIGNATURE | RESNICK I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2125-1549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mongols, Apocalyptic Messianism, and Later Medieval Christian Fears of Mass Conversion to Judaism
The capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the extirpation of various heresies in the twelfth and thirteen centuries, the gradual expansion of Christian rule in the Iberian peninsula, and the mass conversion of Jews to Christianity there during the fourteenth century, all seemed to support a Christian triumphalism that imagined that as the End Time approached, Jews and other infidels would inevitably be absorbed into the Church. Nonethele…
A Re-Examination of Albert the Great's Use of Thomas of Cantimpré's De Natura Rerum
The first twenty-one books of Albert the Great's massive paraphrastic commentary on Aristotle's De animalibus (completed in the 1260s) were followed by something very different in books 22-26, namely brief narrative descriptions of various animals arranged alphabetically and relying extensively upon Thomas of Cantimpré's De natura rerum. The result is a peculiar composite that first articulates the general or common principles of animals-e.g., th…
Thomas de Cantilupe (d. 1282) and the Last Jews of Medieval England
Thomas de Cantilupe (d. 1282) is one of the last medieval English Catholics to have been canonized as a saint, following a remarkable career in which he twice served as the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, as the Chancellor of England, and as Bishop of Hereford. This paper examines reports of his anti-Judaism and its potential influence in England in the period before the English crown expelled the entire Jewish community in 1290
A Wet Nurse Debate
It is clear that medieval Jews employed Christian wet nurses, as well as other Christian domestic servants, and that ecclesiastical condemnations did not prevail against social and economic interests. In Etsi Judeos Pope Innocent III , who had earlier complained loudly that Jews across France are unscrupulous usurers, thieves, blasphemers, and secret murderers of Christians, added the unsubstantiated complaint that “on the day of the Lord’s Resur…
The Salvation of Israel
Medieval Automata and Later Medieval Judeophobia
A widely shared sense among later medieval Christians that Jews represented a growing threat led to efforts to clearly mark or distinguish Jews. These efforts often demanded special garments or distinguishing marks on Jews' clothes, or sought natural signs visible in the Jews' body that would identify them. When these measures failed, some fifteenth-century Spanish Christians placed their hopes on mechanical devices or automata that could clearly…
Jews and Abuse of the Cross in the Middle Ages
Medieval European Jews often reacted violently to the cross or crucifix, seeing it as an idolatrous "abomination." Jews encountered the cross in various material forms, whether displayed in the church, or used in procession, or depicted on the clothing of crusaders and religious officials. It was not only a religious symbol, however: it was also a symbol of Christian power, and its virtual omnipresence in medieval Europe would have been a constan…
Jews and Muslims under the Fourth Lateran Council
"The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) was groundbreaking for having introduced to medieval Europe a series of canons that sought to regulate encounters between Christians and Jews and Muslims. Its canon 68 demanded that Jews and Muslims wear distinguishing dress, in order to prevent Christians from entering into illicit sexual relations with them, restricted the movement of Jews in public spaces during Holy Week, and exhorted secular authorities to …
Learning from the Confessional in the Later Thirteenth Century
Implementation of the canons of the Fourth Lateran Council dramatically expanded the practice of auricular confession among laypeople. Although the Council's canons also insist upon the seal of confession in order to keep the content of confessions secret, thirteenth-century authorities differ over the boundaries of the seal. As a result, the "secrets" of confession are often revealed in at least general terms in order to provide preachers with e…
Peter the Venerable on the Talmud, the Jews, and Islam
It is largely for his attack upon the Talmud that Peter the Venerable’s Adversus Iudeorum inveteratam duritiem stands out. Peter is the first medieval Latin author to name the Talmud as such. Having identified the Talmud as a principal source of Jewish error, Peter condemns its influence upon Jews. In their Talmud, Peter the Venerable insists, Jews even declare that God condemns Christians to Hell “because they do not believe in the Talmud.” Pete…
Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews
Odo of Tournai and the Dehumanization of Medieval Jews
Odo of Tournai and the Dehumanization of Medieval Jews: A Reexamination Irven M. Resnick (bio) Keywords Irven M. Resnick, Odo of Tournai, Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Tournai, St. martin of Tournai, Cambrai, Debate with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of Christ, the Son of God, the Incarnation Over the past two decades, Odo of Tournai (d. 1113) has become better appreciated as an important thinker of the twelfth-century renaissance.1 First a …
The Priestly Raising of the Hands and other Trinitarian Images in Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogue against the Jews
Fictions of the Inner Life
Albertus Magnus 'On Animals'
Medieval Roots of the Myth of Jewish Male Menses
Good historical fiction reveals not only the realities of a particular epoch, but also its cultural attitudes. An excellent example is Bernard Malamud's The Fixer , which succeeds in disclosing the nature of Russian anti-semitism by artfully weaving together enduring themes of anti-Jewish Christian mythology—the blood libel and accusations of ritual murder—to illustrate the fabric of Jewish life in early modern Russia. Perhaps almost unnoticed in…
Marriage in Medieval Culture
From the second half of the eleventh century, medieval Latin theologians and canonists wrestled with a number of questions related to sexual relations and marriage. Marriage is, characteristically, one of the avenues by which a society-especially a religious or holy community- attempts to define its boundaries. In this effort church authorities had, for centuries, proscribed both marriage and sexual relations between Jews and Christians. They had…
Odo of Tournai, the Phoenix, and the Problem of Universals
Odo of Tournai, the Phoenix, and the Problem of Universals IRVEN M. RESNICK OVER THE PAST SEVERALYEARSa good deal of attention has been focused on the philosophical literature of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries in an attempt to locate the origins of nominalism? As part of this effort, several scholars have attempted to come to a new and better appreciation of one of the most vilified figures of the late eleventh century, namely Rosc…
"The Falsification of Scripture and Medieval Christian and Jewish Polemics"1
The Papacy . Bernhard Schimmelpfennig , James Sievert The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century . Gerd Tellenbach , Timothy Reuter
Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's De divina omnipotentia
Contemporary critics have argued that medieval philosophers have transmitted a concept of divine omnipotence that is unintelligible and self-contradictory: one which defines omnipotence as a power capable of producing any effect whatsoever. This study, concentrating upon the first Latin treatise explicitly devoted to omnipotence, places the concept of divine power in its patristic and early medieval context in order to demonstrate that this 'trad…
The Codex in Early Jewish and Christian Communities
Attitudes Towards Philosophy and Dialectic During the Gregorian Reform
Peter Damian on Cluny, Liturgy and Penance
Litterati, Spirituales, and Lay Christians According to Otloh of Saint Emmeram
It seems somewhat paradoxical that at the very time in the eleventh century when laity and clergy were most critical of the corrupt and decadent life led in many monasteries throughout Europe, one should find among reformers the most exaggerated claims for the benefits of monastic life. Peter Damian (1007-1072), one of the most ardent and indefatigable monastic reformers, provides ample evidence of this paradox
Attitudes Towards Philosophy and Dialectic During the Gregorian Reform
A Wet Nurse Debate
It is clear that medieval Jews employed Christian wet nurses, as well as other Christian domestic servants, and that ecclesiastical condemnations did not prevail against social and economic interests. In Etsi Judeos Pope Innocent III , who had earlier complained loudly that Jews across France are unscrupulous usurers, thieves, blasphemers, and secret murderers of Christians, added the unsubstantiated complaint that “on the day of the Lord’s Resur…
Jews and Abuse of the Cross in the Middle Ages
Medieval European Jews often reacted violently to the cross or crucifix, seeing it as an idolatrous "abomination." Jews encountered the cross in various material forms, whether displayed in the church, or used in procession, or depicted on the clothing of crusaders and religious officials. It was not only a religious symbol, however: it was also a symbol of Christian power, and its virtual omnipresence in medieval Europe would have been a constan…
Litterati, Spirituales, and Lay Christians According to Otloh of Saint Emmeram
It seems somewhat paradoxical that at the very time in the eleventh century when laity and clergy were most critical of the corrupt and decadent life led in many monasteries throughout Europe, one should find among reformers the most exaggerated claims for the benefits of monastic life. Peter Damian (1007-1072), one of the most ardent and indefatigable monastic reformers, provides ample evidence of this paradox
Peter Damian on Cluny, Liturgy and Penance
Attitudes Towards Philosophy and Dialectic During the Gregorian Reform
Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's De divina omnipotentia
Contemporary critics have argued that medieval philosophers have transmitted a concept of divine omnipotence that is unintelligible and self-contradictory: one which defines omnipotence as a power capable of producing any effect whatsoever. This study, concentrating upon the first Latin treatise explicitly devoted to omnipotence, places the concept of divine power in its patristic and early medieval context in order to demonstrate that this 'trad…
The Codex in Early Jewish and Christian Communities
The Papacy . Bernhard Schimmelpfennig , James Sievert The Church in Western Europe from the Tenth to the Early Twelfth Century . Gerd Tellenbach , Timothy Reuter
"The Falsification of Scripture and Medieval Christian and Jewish Polemics"1
Odo of Tournai, the Phoenix, and the Problem of Universals
Odo of Tournai, the Phoenix, and the Problem of Universals IRVEN M. RESNICK OVER THE PAST SEVERALYEARSa good deal of attention has been focused on the philosophical literature of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries in an attempt to locate the origins of nominalism? As part of this effort, several scholars have attempted to come to a new and better appreciation of one of the most vilified figures of the late eleventh century, namely Rosc…
Medieval Roots of the Myth of Jewish Male Menses
Good historical fiction reveals not only the realities of a particular epoch, but also its cultural attitudes. An excellent example is Bernard Malamud's The Fixer , which succeeds in disclosing the nature of Russian anti-semitism by artfully weaving together enduring themes of anti-Jewish Christian mythology—the blood libel and accusations of ritual murder—to illustrate the fabric of Jewish life in early modern Russia. Perhaps almost unnoticed in…
Marriage in Medieval Culture
From the second half of the eleventh century, medieval Latin theologians and canonists wrestled with a number of questions related to sexual relations and marriage. Marriage is, characteristically, one of the avenues by which a society-especially a religious or holy community- attempts to define its boundaries. In this effort church authorities had, for centuries, proscribed both marriage and sexual relations between Jews and Christians. They had…
Albertus Magnus 'On Animals'
Fictions of the Inner Life
The Priestly Raising of the Hands and other Trinitarian Images in Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogue against the Jews
Odo of Tournai and the Dehumanization of Medieval Jews
Odo of Tournai and the Dehumanization of Medieval Jews: A Reexamination Irven M. Resnick (bio) Keywords Irven M. Resnick, Odo of Tournai, Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Tournai, St. martin of Tournai, Cambrai, Debate with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of Christ, the Son of God, the Incarnation Over the past two decades, Odo of Tournai (d. 1113) has become better appreciated as an important thinker of the twelfth-century renaissance.1 First a …
Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews
Peter the Venerable on the Talmud, the Jews, and Islam
It is largely for his attack upon the Talmud that Peter the Venerable’s Adversus Iudeorum inveteratam duritiem stands out. Peter is the first medieval Latin author to name the Talmud as such. Having identified the Talmud as a principal source of Jewish error, Peter condemns its influence upon Jews. In their Talmud, Peter the Venerable insists, Jews even declare that God condemns Christians to Hell “because they do not believe in the Talmud.” Pete…
Jews and Muslims under the Fourth Lateran Council
"The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) was groundbreaking for having introduced to medieval Europe a series of canons that sought to regulate encounters between Christians and Jews and Muslims. Its canon 68 demanded that Jews and Muslims wear distinguishing dress, in order to prevent Christians from entering into illicit sexual relations with them, restricted the movement of Jews in public spaces during Holy Week, and exhorted secular authorities to …
Learning from the Confessional in the Later Thirteenth Century
Implementation of the canons of the Fourth Lateran Council dramatically expanded the practice of auricular confession among laypeople. Although the Council's canons also insist upon the seal of confession in order to keep the content of confessions secret, thirteenth-century authorities differ over the boundaries of the seal. As a result, the "secrets" of confession are often revealed in at least general terms in order to provide preachers with e…
Jews and Abuse of the Cross in the Middle Ages
Medieval European Jews often reacted violently to the cross or crucifix, seeing it as an idolatrous "abomination." Jews encountered the cross in various material forms, whether displayed in the church, or used in procession, or depicted on the clothing of crusaders and religious officials. It was not only a religious symbol, however: it was also a symbol of Christian power, and its virtual omnipresence in medieval Europe would have been a constan…
Medieval Automata and Later Medieval Judeophobia
A widely shared sense among later medieval Christians that Jews represented a growing threat led to efforts to clearly mark or distinguish Jews. These efforts often demanded special garments or distinguishing marks on Jews' clothes, or sought natural signs visible in the Jews' body that would identify them. When these measures failed, some fifteenth-century Spanish Christians placed their hopes on mechanical devices or automata that could clearly…
A Wet Nurse Debate
It is clear that medieval Jews employed Christian wet nurses, as well as other Christian domestic servants, and that ecclesiastical condemnations did not prevail against social and economic interests. In Etsi Judeos Pope Innocent III , who had earlier complained loudly that Jews across France are unscrupulous usurers, thieves, blasphemers, and secret murderers of Christians, added the unsubstantiated complaint that “on the day of the Lord’s Resur…
The Salvation of Israel
Mongols, Apocalyptic Messianism, and Later Medieval Christian Fears of Mass Conversion to Judaism
The capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, the extirpation of various heresies in the twelfth and thirteen centuries, the gradual expansion of Christian rule in the Iberian peninsula, and the mass conversion of Jews to Christianity there during the fourteenth century, all seemed to support a Christian triumphalism that imagined that as the End Time approached, Jews and other infidels would inevitably be absorbed into the Church. Nonethele…
A Re-Examination of Albert the Great's Use of Thomas of Cantimpré's De Natura Rerum
The first twenty-one books of Albert the Great's massive paraphrastic commentary on Aristotle's De animalibus (completed in the 1260s) were followed by something very different in books 22-26, namely brief narrative descriptions of various animals arranged alphabetically and relying extensively upon Thomas of Cantimpré's De natura rerum. The result is a peculiar composite that first articulates the general or common principles of animals-e.g., th…
Thomas de Cantilupe (d. 1282) and the Last Jews of Medieval England
Thomas de Cantilupe (d. 1282) is one of the last medieval English Catholics to have been canonized as a saint, following a remarkable career in which he twice served as the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, as the Chancellor of England, and as Bishop of Hereford. This paper examines reports of his anti-Judaism and its potential influence in England in the period before the English crown expelled the entire Jewish community in 1290
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