Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255) and index.
Synopsis
This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290.
Table of 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.