1. On the use of the word allosemitism, see the introduction to this work and Zygmunt Bauman, “Allosemitism: Premodern, Modern, Postmodern,” in Modernity, Culture, and “the Jew” ed. Bryan Cheyette and Laura Marcus (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 143–56.
2. Jacques Le Goff, History and Memory, trans. Steven Rendall and Elizabeth Claman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), 12–13
3. Miri Rubin, “Choosing Death? Experiences of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Europe” in Martyrs and Martyrologies, ed. Diane Wood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 153–84.
4. For more on the development and function of homiliaries within the context of early medieval sermons, see Thomas N. Hall, “The Early Medieval Sermon,” in The Sermon, ed. Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Typologie des Sources du Moyen âge, Fasc. 81–83 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), 203–37.
5. Réginald Grégoire, Homéliaires liturgiques médiévaux: analyse de manuscrits, Biblioteca Degli Studi Medievali 12 (Spolete: Centro Italiano di Studi Sull’Alto Medioevo, 1980), 245