Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii Introduction: Jews in Medieval England— A Temporal and Pedagogical Vision (Miriamne Ara Krummel, Tison Pugh)....Pages 1-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Addressing Jewish Alterity in the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England (Shannon O. Ambrose)....Pages 23-36 Englishness/Jewishness/Otherness: Teaching English National Identity (Merrall Llewelyn Price)....Pages 37-52 The Historical Jew in the Modern Classroom: Problematizing the Creation of Jewish Identity in Medieval England (K. M. Kletter)....Pages 53-69 Creating Jewish Otherness: The Jew as an Archetype in Fourteenth-Century Philosophical and Theological Reasoning (Jeffrey C. Witt)....Pages 71-86 Jews as Others and Neighbors: Encountering Chaucer’s Prioress in the Classroom (Heather Blurton, Hannah Johnson)....Pages 87-100 Love Thy Neighbor, Love Thy Fellow: Teaching Gower’s Representation of the Unethical Jew (Emily Houlik-Ritchey)....Pages 101-115 Front Matter ....Pages 117-117 Reading the Other: Teaching Chaucer’s The Prioress’s Tale in Its Late Medieval Context (Alfred Thomas)....Pages 119-139 The Chosen and the Chastised: Naming Jews in the York Mystery Plays (William A. Quinn)....Pages 141-156 Performing Jewishness in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament (Kathy Lavezzo)....Pages 157-169 The Norwich Blood Libel Mounted Once Again: A Pedagogy for Tolerance in Arnold Wesker’s Blood Libel (1991) (Eric Alexander G. Binnie)....Pages 171-187 Front Matter ....Pages 189-189 Illuminating Difference: Christian Images of Jews in Medieval English Manuscripts (Susanna Bede Caroselli)....Pages 191-207 Visualizing the Jewish Other in Chaucer’s The Prioress’s Tale (Barbara Stevenson)....Pages 209-227 Thomas of Monmouth’s The Life and Passion of William of Norwich: Mapping Commemorative Violence (Denise L. Despres)....Pages 229-244 “You Had to Have Been There”: The Importance of Place in Teaching Jewish History and Literature (Lisa Lampert-Weissig)....Pages 245-260 Front Matter ....Pages 261-261 Why Not Read Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina clericalis in the British Literature Survey? (Gabriel Ford)....Pages 263-278 Bringing Meir b. Elijah of Norwich into the Classroom: Discovering a Medieval Minority Poet (Miriamne Ara Krummel)....Pages 279-294 Teaching Jewish and Christian Daily Interaction in Medieval England (Charlotte Newman Goldy)....Pages 295-309 Difficult Sameness and Weird Time: Starting with The Siege of Jerusalem (Adrienne Williams Boyarin)....Pages 311-327 Back Matter ....Pages 329-373