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Chaucer and the Jews : sources, contexts, meanings
- Title
- Chaucer and the Jews : sources, contexts, meanings / edited by Sheila Delany.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Delany, Sheila.
- Description
- xi, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Jews were expelled from England in 1290, about half a century before Geoffrey Chaucer's birth. But Jews and their culture continued to play in important role in the English Christian imagination throughout the late Middle Ages, in the work of Chaucer and his contemporaries. How were writers enabled to represent Jews in their absence, and why did they want to do so?" "These questions are explored for the first time in a pioneering collection of essays edited by Sheila Delany. Contributions from eminent historians and literary scholars examine the influence of theology, politics, folklore, visual art, and domestic and social life in producing a multivalent tradition of representing Jews in medieval English literature. Chaucer's work is the main focus of the volume, and other late medieval texts offer further avenues of investigation. Two essays on current pedagogy conclude the volume, bringing its subject into the range of immediate concerns of teachers today. Chaucer and the Jews will be a discovery for readers seeking a fresh perspective on Jewish studies, medieval literature, and life in medieval England."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- The multicultural Middle Ages
- Uniform Title
- Multicultural Middle Ages
- Subject
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Characters
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Characters > Jews
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- To 1500
- Jews > England > History > To 1500
- Jews in literature
- Characters and characteristics
- Jews
- Juden Motiv
- Judenbild
- Literatur
- Literaturunterricht
- Mittelenglisch
- Joden
- Jews > Great Britain > History
- England
- Juden (Motiv)
- Mittelenglisch
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255) and index.
- Contents
- Jewish mother-in-law : Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale / Christine M. Rose -- Pardoner's "holy Jew" / William Chester Jordan -- Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims / Sheila Delany -- "Jewes werk" in Sir Thopas / Jerome Mandel -- Postcolonial Chaucer and the virtual Jew / Sylvia Tomasch -- Chaucer and the translation of the Jewish Scriptures / Mary Dove -- Reading Biblical outlaws : the "rise of David" story in the fourteenth century / Timothy S. Jones -- Robert Holcot on the Jews / Nancy L. Turner -- Protean Jew in the Vernon manuscript / Denise L. Despres -- Siege of Jerusalem and Augustinian historians : writing about Jews in fourteenth-century England / Elisa Narin van Court -- "House devil, town saint" : anti-Semitism and hagiography in medieval Suffolk / Anthony P. Bale -- Englishness and medieval Anglo-Jewry / Colin Richmond -- Teaching Chaucer to the "cursed folk of Herod" / Gillian Steinberg -- Positively medieval : teaching as a missionary activity / Judith S. Neaman.
- ISBN
- 0415938821
- 9780415938822
- 9780415762359
- 0415762359
- LCCN
- 2002008486
- OCLC
- ocm50003942
- 50003942
- SCSB-14580233
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library