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Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisee. By Sara Lipton. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. Pp. xvi, 241. $60.00.)

Images of Intolerance is a learned and provocative book that offers daring readings of the two earliest surviving thirteenth-century manuscripts of the Bible moralisee-one crafted (1220-1229) for Louis IX and the second in vernacular for a member of the royal court. In order to understand the meaning of the striking and often negative presentation of Jews in the two manuscripts (Vienna ONB cod. 1179 and 2554), Upton devotes separate chapters to these aspects of the illustrations: the general image of the Jew, …