Chaucer and the Jews

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93882-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delany, Sheila

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Part I Chaucer Texts; Chapter 1 1 The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale, Christine M. Rose; Chapter 2 2 The Pardoner's “Holy Jew”, William Chester Jordan; Chapter 3 3 Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims, Sheila Delany; Chapter 4 4 “Jewes werk” in Sir Thopas, Jerome Mandel; Chapter 5 5 Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew, Sylvia Tomasch; Part II Part II Chaucerian Contexts; Chapter 6 6 Chaucer and the Translation of the Jewish Scriptures, Mary Dove; Chapter 7 7 Reading Biblical Outlaws: The “Rise of David” Story in the Fourteenth Century, Timothy S. Jones; Chapter 8 8 Robert Holcot on the Jews, Nancy L. Turner; Chapter 9 9 The Protean Jew in the Vernon Manuscript, Denise L. Despres; Chapter 10 10 The Siege of Jerusalem and Augustinian Historians: Writing about Jews in Fourteenth-Century England, Elisa Narin van Court; Chapter 11 11 “House Devil, Town Saint”:Anti-Semitism and Hagiography in Medieval Suffolk, Anthony P. Bale; Part III PART III Chaucer, Jews, and Us; Chapter 12 12 Englishness and Medieval Anglo-Jewry, Colin Richmond; Chapter 13 13 Teaching Chaucer to the “Cursed Folk of Herod”, Gillian Steinberg; Chapter 14 14 Positively Medieval: Teaching as a Missionary Activity, Judith S. Neaman;

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Delany, Sheila