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Miriamne Ara Krummel.
Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan.
Series: The new Middle Ages.
Publication due: 20 January 2011.
Page count: 264.

Publisher's recommended price
Hardback ISBN 9780230618701, £52.00

Description:

In this book, Miriamne Ara Krummel complicates the notion of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. Cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England, and it is only in rereading the historical record that it has been considered Judenrein - without Jews.

Contents:
Introduction: Outside Looking In: Re-Membering the Medieval English Jew
Categories of Race: 'Judæis Notris Angliæ' and the 1275 Statute of Jewry
Where Curse, Refrain, and Identity Intersect: The Poetry of Meir B. Elijah of Norwich
Encountering Jews beyond the Kingdom of Cathay: Imagining Nation in Mandeville's Travelogue
Text and Context: Tracing Chaucer's Moments of Jewishness
Omissions of Antisemitism: Thomas Hoccleve and the Putative Jew
Impossible Desires and Fabulistic Dreams: Conversion in the Croxton Play
Epilogue: When Endings Are Beginnings.