Jews in Medieval England

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.

• Anti-Semitism in Medieval England
• Anglo-Saxon representations of Jews
• Teaching xenophobia in the undergraduate classroom
• Teaching medieval Anti-Semitism to undergraduate students
• Pedagogical approaches to the Other
• Robert Holcot
• Teaching Chaucer's Prioress’s Tale to college students
• John Gower and the Unethical Jew archetype
• Blood libel and anti-Semitic Bohemian texts
• Croxton Play of the Sacrament
• The Norwich Blood Libel
• Arnold Wesker’s Blood Libel
• medieval anti-semitic manuscript illuminations

• University of Dayton, Dayton, USA

  Miriamne Ara Krummel

• University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

  Tison Pugh

Miriamne Ara Krummel is Associate Professor of English at the University of Dayton, USA. She is the author of Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) as well as several articles and book chapters.

Tison Pugh is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, USA. He is the co-editor of Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales (2016) and the author of Chaucer’s (Anti-) Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages (2014). He has also published several other books, chapters, and articles. 

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