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Chaucer And The Jews

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Author : Sheila Delany
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11

Chaucer And The Jews written by Sheila Delany and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Literary Criticism categories.

This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290.

Chaucer And The Jews

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Author : Richard Rex
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986

Chaucer And The Jews written by Richard Rex and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.

Chaucer And The Jews

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Author : Sheila Delany
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11

This edited collection explores the importance of the Jews in the English Christian imagination of the 14th and 15th centuries - long after their expulsion from Britain in 1290.

A New Midrashic Reading Of Geoffrey Chaucer

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Author : Norman Toby Simms
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004

A New Midrashic Reading Of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Norman Toby Simms and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

Offers a novel interpretation of Chaucer as a "fuzzy Jew", a conflicted descendant of Conversos, who created the complex antisemitic character of the Prioress. Following a psycho-historical approach, suggests that the Prioress was raped as a child by a father-figure and that she projects the blame onto the Jews, who were demonized by her society. Associates child victimization with the alleged victimization felt by Chaucer for his own suffering as a child belonging to a group that had to conceal its identity. In view of Chaucer's putative Jewish heritage, offers kabbalistic perspectives on his work.

The Critics And The Prioress

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Author : Heather Blurton
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-04-19

The Critics And The Prioress written by Heather Blurton and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.

Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales

Pagans Tartars Moslems And Jews In Chaucer S Canterbury Tales

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Author : Brenda Deen Schildgen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Pagans Tartars Moslems And Jews In Chaucer S Canterbury Tales written by Brenda Deen Schildgen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Collections categories.

"Schildgen reads the Canterbury Tales as a work of complex speculation about identity, values, and social arrangements. Her book focuses on the margins where these concerns emerge with special clarity and urgency--in the tales conspicuously located outside a Christianized Western Europe."--Robert R. Edwards, Pennsylvania State University Brenda Deen Schildgen takes a new path in Chaucer studies by examining the Canterbury Tales set outside a Christian-dominated world--tales that pit Christian teleological ethics and history against the imagined beliefs and practices of Moslems, Jews, pagans, and Chaucer's contemporaries, the Tartars. Schildgen contends that these tales--for example, the Knight's, Squire's, and Wife of Bath's--deliberate on the grand rifts between the Christian or pagan past and Chaucer's present and between other cultural worlds and the Latin Christian world. They offer philosophical views about what constitutes "wisdom" and "lawe" while exploring alternative moral attitudes to the Christian mainstream of Chaucer's time. She argues that their presence in the Canterbury Tales testifies to Chaucer's literary secularism and reveals his expansive narrative interest in the intellectual and cultural worlds outside Christianity. Making impressive use of medieval intellectual history, Schildgen shows that Chaucer framed his tales with the diverse philosophies, religions, and ethics that coexisted with Christian ideology in the late Middle Ages, a framework that emerges as political and not metaphysical, putting these beliefs deliberatively in the context of literary discourse, where their validity can be accepted or dismissed and, most important, debated. Brenda Deen Schildgen teaches comparative literature, medieval studies, and English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of several books, including Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark, which won a Choice Award for most outstanding academic book in 1999, and is the coeditor of The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales.

Gender And Jewish Difference From Paul To Shakespeare

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Author : Lisa Lampert
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-04-09

Gender And Jewish Difference From Paul To Shakespeare written by Lisa Lampert and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with History categories.

Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of Christian identity through strategic use of representations of Others: idealized Jewish patriarchs or demonized contemporary Jews; Woman represented as either virgin or whore. In Western thought, the Christian was figured as spiritual and masculine, defined in opposition to the carnal, feminine, and Jewish. Women and Jews are not simply the Other for the Christian exegetical tradition, however; they also represent sources of origin, as one cannot conceive of men without women or of Christianity without Judaism. The bifurcated representations of Woman and Jew found in the literature of the Middle Ages and beyond reflect the uneasy figurations of women and Jews as both insiders and outsiders to Christian society. Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare provides the first extended examination of the linkages of gender and Jewish difference in late medieval and early modern English literature. Focusing on representations of Jews and women in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, selections from medieval drama, and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Lampert explores the ways in which medieval and early modern authors used strategies of opposition to—and identification with—figures of Jews and women to create individual and collective Christian identities. This book shows not only how these questions are interrelated in the texts of medieval and early modern England but how they reveal the distinct yet similarly paradoxical places held by Woman and Jew within a longer tradition of Western thought that extends to the present day.

The Sins Of Madame Eglentyne And Other Essays On Chaucer

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Author : Richard Rex
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1995

The Sins Of Madame Eglentyne And Other Essays On Chaucer written by Richard Rex and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.

The essays in this single-author collection are principally concerned with Madame Eglentyne, the demure and elegant prioress depicted in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Richard Rex contends that how we think about Chaucer as a Christian depends largely on our interpretation of the Prioress's Tale, which in turn is linked to the brilliant portrait of Madame Eglentyne in the General Prologue.

The Prioress S Tale

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Author : Wiebke Formann
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-07-24

The Prioress S Tale written by Wiebke Formann and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, language: English, abstract: An examination of a tale on anti-Semitism affords a clear definition of it. In addition one could argue if an examination of a medieval text on a matter - which has only been called by its name since 1880 - is appropriate. Anyway, in this comparatively short period of time many definitions of anti-Semitism have appeared surface, ranging from opposition to, hatred of, prejudice or discrimination against Jews and “one of the generally acknowledged intellectual heresies” to “taking a trait or an action that is widespread if not universal, and blaming only the Jews for it” . Taken literally, anti-Semitism does not only refer to the Jews, but to all ‘Semites’, which would also include the Arabs ; therefore anti-Judaism would be the more suitable term. Nevertheless I will make use of anti-Semitism in this paper because it is the well-established term and in contemporary application predominantly restricted to hostility towards the Jews. In respect to the preceding definition, anti-Semitism is more than obvious in Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale: The Jews murder - out of pure hatred - a little Christian boy who was just worshipping “His Lady” through his song and finally are tortured and killed. In the first chapter I will illustrate in detail to what extend the Prioress’s Tale is an anti-Semitic story. As a matter of course the question raises, if Chaucer only illustrated the typical subjects of the time in the corresponding way or if he was well aware of the unfairness of the tale’s content. In other words: did he believe the Jews to be an evil people (as that was the common belief in medieval times) or did he present the Jews as wicked on purpose, and therefore on anti-Semitic grounds? I will deal with the implications of this question in chapters two and three respectively. In chapter two I will elaborate on the medieval image of the Jews on the basis of their depiction in contemporary literature and their political situation during the Middle Ages. In order to convict Chaucer of being anti-Semitic or not, knowledge about the style of the tale and its intention is needed. In chapter three I will take into consideration Chaucer’s use of the Prioress as the narrator of the tale and describe Chaucer’s function as the author. Finally I will evaluate the information gained from chapters one to three and present an answer to the crucial question: was Chaucer an anti-Semite?

The Prioress S Tale

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Author : Wiebke Formann
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-11

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: An examination of a tale on anti-Semitism affords a clear definition of it. In addition one could argue if an examination of a medieval text on a matter - which has only been called by its name since 1880 - is appropriate. Anyway, in this comparatively short period of time many definitions of anti-Semitism have appeared surface, ranging from opposition to, hatred of, prejudice or discrimination against Jews and "one of the generally acknowledged intellectual heresies" to "taking a trait or an action that is widespread if not universal, and blaming only the Jews for it" . Taken literally, anti-Semitism does not only refer to the Jews, but to all 'Semites', which would also include the Arabs; therefore anti-Judaism would be the more suitable term. Nevertheless I will make use of anti-Semitism in this paper because it is the well-established term and in contemporary application predominantly restricted to hostility towards the Jews. In respect to the preceding definition, anti-Semitism is more than obvious in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale: The Jews murder - out of pure hatred - a little Christian boy who was just worshipping "His Lady" through his song and finally are tortured and killed. In the first chapter I will illustrate in detail to what extend the Prioress's Tale is an anti-Semitic story. As a matter of course the question raises, if Chaucer only illustrated the typical subjects of the time in the corresponding way or if he was well aware of the unfairness of the tale's content. In other words: did he believe the Jews to be an evil people (as that was the common belief in medieval times) or did he present the Jews as wicked on purpose, and therefore on anti-Semitic grounds? I will deal with the implications of this question in chapters two an

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