Chaucer and the Jews
Subtitle: Sources, Contexts, Meanings (The Multicultural Middle Ages, 1)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415938822
First sentence: Hildegard of Bingen's fifth vision personifies the people of the covenant in the form of a woman, Synagoga (see fig. 1), who is "mother of the incarnation" and thus the mother-in-law of the Christian Church, Ecclesia, who is the bride (sponsa) of Christ.