Siege of Jerusalem PB

by Consortium for the Teaching of the Middl and Michael Livingston

The fourteenth-century Siege of Jerusalem has been called by Ralph Hanna the chocolate-covered tarantula of the alliterative movement for its apparent anti-Semitism and is, as Livingston notes in his introduction, simply difficult for twenty-first-century readers to like. The poem, which describes the destruction of the Second Temple by Roman forces in AD 70, is graphic in detail and unpleasant in its relish of the suffering of the Jews. But...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580440908
• ISBN13: 9781580440905
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.9"