Chaucer and the Jews : sources, contexts, meanings / edited by Sheila Delany.
Contributors: Delany, Sheila.
Series: The multicultural Middle Ages
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Characters -- Jews.; Jews -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Jews in literature.
Description: "Jews were expelled from England in 1290, about half a century before Geoffrey Chaucer's birth. But Jews and their culture continued to play in important role in the English Christian imagination throughout the late Middle Ages, in the work of Chaucer and his contemporaries. How were writers enabled to represent Jews in their absence, and why did they want to do so?".

"These questions are explored for the first time in a pioneering collection of essays edited by Sheila Delany. Contributions from eminent historians and literary scholars examine the influence of theology, politics, folklore, visual art, and domestic and social life in producing a multivalent tradition of representing Jews in medieval English literature. Chaucer's work is the main focus of the volume, and other late medieval texts offer further avenues of investigation.

Two essays on current pedagogy conclude the volume, bringing its subject into the range of immediate concerns of teachers today. Chaucer and the Jews will be a discovery for readers seeking a fresh perspective on Jewish studies, medieval literature, and life in medieval England."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1; title: THE JEWISH MOTHER-IN-LAW: SYNAGOGA; title: AND THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE; title: CHRISTINE M. ROSE; title: CHAPTER 2; title: THE PARDONER'S "HOLY JEW"; title: WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN; title: CHAPTER 3; title: CHAUCER'S PRIORESS, THE JEWS, AND THE MUSLIMS; title: SHEILA DELANY; title: CHAPTER 4; title: "JEWES WERK" IN SIR THOPAS; title: JEROME MANDEL; title: CHAPTER 5; title: POSTCOLONIAL CHAUCER AND THE VIRTUAL JEW; title: SYLVIA TOMASCH; title: Part II Chaucerian Contexts; title: CHAPTER 6; title: CHAUCER AND THE TRANSLATION OF THE; title: JEWISH SCRIPTURES; title: MARY DOVE; title: CHAPTER 7; title: READING BIBLICAL OUTLAWS: THE "RISE OF DAVID"; title: STORY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY; title: TIMOTHY S. JONES; title: CHAPTER 8; title: ROBERT HOLCOT ON THE JEWS; title: NANCY L. TURNER; title: CHAPTER 9; title: THE PROTEAN JEW IN THE VERNON MANUSCRIPT; title: DENISE L. DESPRES; title: CHAPTER 10; title: THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM AND AUGUSTINIAN HISTORIANS:; title: WRITING ABOUT JEWS IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND; title: ELISA NARIN VAN COURT; title: CHAPTER 11; title: "HOUSE DEVIL, TOWN SAINT": ANTI-SEMITISM AND; title: HAGIOGRAPHY IN MEDIEVAL SUFFOLK; title: ANTHONY P. BALE; title: Part II Chaucer, Jews, and Us; title: CHAPTER 12; title: ENGLISHNESS AND MEDIEVAL ANGLO-JEWRY; title: COLIN RICHMOND; title: CHAPTER 13; title: TEACHING CHAUCER TO THE "CURSED FOLK OF HEROD"; title: GILLIAN STEINBERG; title: CHAPTER 14; title: POSITIVELY MEDIEVAL: TEACHING AS A; title: MISSIONARY ACTIVITY; title: JUDITH S. NEAMAN.