..., benign or malevolent, literal or allegorical, but fictions either way. Hoffmann s Anselmus, in flight from a series of inveterate daily mishaps, sits alone beneath a flowering tree on the banks of the Elbe and hears at first a rustling and whisking like the sound of wind in the leaves...

... participate in the nineteenthcentury project of mediating between traditional belief and mod­ ern thought. In both the mediating presences are spirits, benign or malevolent, literal or allegorical, but fictions either way. Hoffmann s Anselmus, in flight from a series of inveterate daily mishaps, sits alone...

...: Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany," Common Knowledge 10 (2004): 1-32. 90 Guillaume Durand, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum: l-IV, ed. Anselmus Davril and T. M. Thibodeau (Turnhout: Brepols, 1995), 112. 91 English translation quoted from Guillaume Durand, The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum o f William...