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"Working at the intersection of medieval, postcolonial, and Judaic studies, Krummel has createda wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work of scholarship that re-evaluates how anti-Judaism works. Stressing the absence of the Jews even when physically present (transformed into a figure, a symbol, a deicidal monster), the book traces Jewish representation by Christians and (powerfully) by Jews living amongst Christians. Even when expelled from the island in 1290, the Jews continued to haunt, so integral were they to medieval Christian identities. Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England is a carefully researched, disquieting, vigorously argued, and profound book." - Jeffrey J. Cohen, Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University
"In Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England, Krummel explores the varied and arresting medieval pre-histories of modern racism and antisemitism. Krummel's lively, eloquent and wide-ranging exploration of the Jews' 'virtual presence' in medieval English culture asks timely and challenging questions about religious violence and group identity. Krummel's book not only helps us to think about the vanished English Jews, expelled in 1290, but also suggests provocative and innovative ways of recovering and interpreting the haunting, multiple presences the Jews continued to play in the English, Christian imagination." - Anthony Bale, Reader in Medieval Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England
Book Subtitle: Legally Absent, Virtually Present
Authors: Miriamne Ara Krummel
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117181
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Miriamne Ara Krummel 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61870-1Published: 20 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38132-6Published: 20 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11718-1Published: 31 January 2011
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 243
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Literature, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Religion, History of the Middle East, History of Medieval Europe