The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms 1350-1500

by Anthony Bale

Book Overview

This interdisciplinary study explores images of Jews and Judaism in late medieval English literature and culture. Using four main categories - history, miracle, cult and Passion - Anthony Bale demonstrates how varied and changing ideas of Judaism coexisted within well-known anti-semitic literary and visual models, depending on context, authorship and audience. He examines the ways in which English writers, artists and readers used and abused the Jewish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521142032
• ISBN13: 9780521142038
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"