Jews in Medieval England Teaching Representations of the Other [Hardcover]

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.

1?Introduction: Jews in Medieval England: A Temporal and Pedagogical Vision.- 2?Addressing the Jew, as Other, in Anglo-Saxon England.- 3?Englishness/Jewishness/Otherness: English National Identity.- 4?The Historical Jew in the Modern Classroom: Problematizing the Creation of Jewish Identity in Medieval England.- 5?Creating Jewish Otherness: The Jew as an Archetype in Fourteenth-Century Philosophical and Theological Reasoning.- 6?Jews as Others and Neighbors: Encountering Chaucers Prioress in the Classroom.- 7?Reading the Other: Teaching Chaucers?Prioresss Tale?in Its Late Medieval Context.- 8?The Chosen and the Chastised: Naming Jews in the York Mystery Plays.- 9?Performing Jewishness in the Croxton?Play of the Sacrament.- 10?The Norwich Blood Libel Mounted Once Again: A Pedagogy for Tolerance in Arnold Weskers?Blood Libel?(1991).- 11?Illuminating Difference: Christian Images of Jews in Medieval English Manuscripts.- 12?Visualizing the Jewish Other in Chaucers?Prioresss Tale.- 13?You Had to Have Been There: The Importance of Place in Teaching Jewish History and Literature.- 14?Thomas of Monmouths?The Life and Passion of William of Norwich: Mapping Cl2