Jews in Medieval England

Chapter 1 Introduction: Jews in Medieval England— A Temporal and Pedagogical Vision

Chapter 2 Addressing Jewish Alterity in the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England

Chapter 3 Englishness/Jewishness/Otherness: Teaching English National Identity

Chapter 4 The Historical Jew in the Modern Classroom: Problematizing the Creation of Jewish Identity in Medieval England

Chapter 5 Creating Jewish Otherness: The Jew as an Archetype in Fourteenth-Century Philosophical and Theological Reasoning

Chapter 6 Jews as Others and Neighbors: Encountering Chaucer’s Prioress in the Classroom

Chapter 7 Love Thy Neighbor, Love Thy Fellow: Teaching Gower’s Representation of the Unethical Jew

Chapter 8 Reading the Other: Teaching Chaucer’s The Prioress’s Tale in Its Late Medieval Context

Chapter 9 The Chosen and the Chastised: Naming Jews in the York Mystery Plays

Chapter 10 Performing Jewishness in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Chapter 11 The Norwich Blood Libel Mounted Once Again: A Pedagogy for Tolerance in Arnold Wesker’s Blood Libel (1991)

Chapter 12 Illuminating Difference: Christian Images of Jews in Medieval English Manuscripts

Chapter 13 Visualizing the Jewish Other in Chaucer’s The Prioress’s Tale

Chapter 14 Thomas of Monmouth’s The Life and Passion of William of Norwich: Mapping Commemorative Violence

Chapter 15 “You Had to Have Been There”: The Importance of Place in Teaching Jewish History and Literature

Chapter 16 Why Not Read Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina clericalis in the British Literature Survey?

Chapter 17 Bringing Meir b. Elijah of Norwich into the Classroom: Discovering a Medieval Minority Poet

Chapter 18 Teaching Jewish and Christian Daily Interaction in Medieval England