Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other

ISBN-13: 9783319876252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 373 str.

Krummel, Miriamne Ara

Opis

This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in explicating how the Jew-as-Other was formed. Chapters are devoted to the teaching of the complexities of medieval Jewish experiences in the modern classroom. Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other also grounds medieval conceptions of the Other within the contemporary world where we continue to confront the problematic attitudes directed toward alleged social outcasts.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Jews in Medieval England: A Temporal and Pedagogical Vision.- 2 Addressing the Jew, as Other, in Anglo-Saxon England.- 3 Englishness/Jewishness/Otherness: English National Identity.- 4 The Historical Jew in the Modern Classroom: Problematizing the Creation of Jewish Identity in Medieval England.- 5 Creating Jewish Otherness: The Jew as an Archetype in Fourteenth-Century Philosophical and Theological Reasoning.- 6 Jews as Others and Neighbors: Encountering Chaucer’s Prioress in the Classroom.- 7 Reading the Other: Teaching Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale in Its Late Medieval Context.- 8 The Chosen and the Chastised: Naming Jews in the York Mystery Plays.- 9 Performing Jewishness in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament.- 10 The Norwich Blood Libel Mounted Once Again: A Pedagogy for Tolerance in Arnold Wesker’s Blood Libel (1991).- 11 Illuminating Difference: Christian Images of Jews in Medieval English Manuscripts.- 12 Visualizing the Jewish Other in Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale.- 13 “You Had to Have Been There”: The Importance of Place in Teaching Jewish History and Literature.- 14 Thomas of Monmouth’s The Life and Passion of William of Norwich: Mapping Commemorative Violence.- 15 Why Not Read Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina clericalis in the British Literature Survey?.- 16 Bringing Meir b. Elijah of Norwich into the Classroom: Discovering a Medieval Minority Poet.- 17 Teaching Jewish and Christian Daily Interaction in Medieval England.- 18 “Love Thy Neighbor, Love Thy Fellow”: Teaching Gower’s Representation of the Unethical Jew.- 19 Difficult Sameness and Weird Time: Starting with The Siege of Jerusalem.

O autorze

Miriamne Ara Krummel is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dayton, USA. She is the author of Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) as well as several articles and book chapters.

Tison Pugh is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, USA. He is the co-editor of Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales (2016) and the author of Chaucer’s (Anti-) Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages (2014). He has also published several other books, chapters, and articles.