Frank Riess - The Journey of Deacon Bodo from the Rhine to the Guadalquivir: Apostasy and Conversion to Judaism in Early Medieval Europe

My journey in search of Bodo began with a visit to the island monastery of Reichenau in Lake Constance on the Rhine in October 2013. The staff at the island museum furnished much detail. The following year, I went to Crdoba to visit the Great Mosque and Cathedral together with the archive that houses the scant writings of Bodo in an original manuscript of Albaruss correspondence. I have to thank Canon Don Manuel Nieto Cumplido and his successor Don Manuel Montilla Caballero for their encouragement and support, and the latter for permission to reproduce some pages from the original codex. Also important was the assistance of his deputy Alberto Estvez and the staff at the Cathedral Archive, especially Mara Dolores. The images were taken by Alejandro Giacometti who accompanied me. I am also grateful to him for preparing these for publication.

Perhaps the greatest debt of gratitude is to Norman Golb for permission to reproduce his translation of the autobiography of an eleventh century proselyte. I also have to thank his family for their support. Golbs work on proselytism has proved a guiding influence behind this study. A book like this is heavily dependent on the work of others and I would like to offer my thanks to some of them. The first draft, completed in late 2017, was read by Chris Wickham who offered suggestions both general and particular that saved me from many egregious errors. Rachel Stone kindly read a passage on Hincmar and a letter to Charles. All lapses that remain, factual or stylistic, are my sole responsibility. At an early stage the first chapters were also read by Matthew Innes. Others who helped were Jordi Casanovas Mir on Lucena; Bat-Sheva Albert on Bodo; and particularly Yosef Rivlin at a meeting at Bar-Ilan in Tel Aviv. Norman Roth, Robert Brody, Martin Goodman and Norman Stillman all gave answers large and small to various questions, putting me on the right path. Mark Cohen furnished bibliographical information, and Moshe Yagur provided an article. I have had to rely on translations of Hebrew material for which Avshalom Caspi and Adi Lerer merit a big thank you. Michaela Sweet also produced a valuable translation from German. The maps were drawn with his usual skill by David Cox. I thank an external reader for some pertinent suggestions and improvements. Michael Greenwood offered wisdom and continuity in the preparation of the script. Lucia, the first reader, went through the text, coming up with manifold improvements. To her this book is dedicated.

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