Chaucer and the Jews

ISBN-13: 9780415938822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 272 str.

Lester H. Brune; Sheila Delany

Opis

This edited collection explores how and why the Jews continued to play an important role in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after Jews were expelled from Britain in 1290. Delany focuses attention on the historical context, the analysis of Chaucerian texts, and the consideration of texts by xonremporary authors Gower, Langland, Lydgate and Kempe.

Recenzje

"In short, I would say that everyone who teaches or is seriously interested in Chaucer should get a hold of this book." -- John Michael Crafton, Christianity and Literature
"...this book should be in every college and university library." -- Lawrence Besserman, Hebrew University, Speculum

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Edited by Delany, Sheila