1. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic Books, 1973), 82.
2. Caroline Walker Bynum, Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 1–21, 110–69.
3. I take the phrase and inspiration from Steven Mullaney, “Affective Technologies: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage,” in Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England, ed. Mary Floyd-Wilson and Garrett Sullivan (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 71–89.
4. Pseudo-Bede, In Matthaei Evangelium Expositio, PL 92, col. 14; Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels Collected out of the Fathers by St. Thomas Aquinas, ed. John Henry Newman, 4 vols. (Southampton: St. Austin Press, 1997), 1: 82 (henceforth Commentary on the Four Gospels).
5. See, e.g., Jeremy Cohen, “The Jews as Killers of Christ in the Latin Tradition, from Augustine to the Friars,” Traditio 39 (1983): 3–27