Sheila
Delany, ed.
Chaucer and the Jews: Sources, Contexts, Meanings.
London:
Routledge, March 2003.
The
Multicultural Middle Ages series.
304pp.
Hardback ISBN
0415938821.
Publisher's
recommended price £65.00
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 contemporary authors Gower, Langland, Lydgate and Kempe.
Contents:
Acknowledgements.
Editor's Introduction. I. Chaucer texts: Christine Rose, The
Jewish
Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale; William Chester
Jordan,
The Pardoner's "Holy Jew"; Sheila Delany, Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews
and the Muslims; Jerome Mandel, "Jewes werk" in Sir Thopas; Sylvia
Tomasch,
Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew. II. Chaucerian
contexts:
Mary Dove, Chaucer and the Translation of Jewish Scripture; Timothy
Jones,
Reading Scriptural Outlaws: The "Rise of David" Narrative in the
Fourteenth
Century; Nancy Turner, Robery Holcot on the Jews; Denise Despres, The
Protean
Jew in the Vernon Manscript; Elisa Narin van Court, The Siege of
Jerusalem
and Augustinian Historians: Writing About Jews in Fourteenth-Century
England;
Anthony Bale, "House Devil, Town Saint": Anti-Semitism and Hagiography
in Medieval Suffolk. III. Chaucer, Jews, and Us: Colin Richmond,
Englishness and Medieval Anglo-Jewry; Gillian Steinberg, Teaching
Chaucer
to the "Cursed Folk of Herod"; Judith Neaman, Positively Medieval:
Teaching
as a Missionary Activity.
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