Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Chaucer Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,3 (1995) 227-248
Keywords:
Siege of Jerusalem (Middle English poem) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Jews
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Judaism Relations
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Christianity
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Christianity and other religions Judaism
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Jews in literature
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Judaism in literature
Abstract:
Examines the ways in which the Jews are represented in the 14th-century poem "The Siege of Jerusalem", narrating the story of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. Places the poem in a particular tradition of historical writing in England, remarking that in addition to the violent anti-Judaism of the poem, there is a competing sympathetic feeling for Jewish suffering. Explains this ambivalent attitude of the narrator by the dualistic Christian ideology. Composed in Yorkshire, the poem reflects the tradition of violently enacted anti-Judaism, but also the tradition of Augustinian historicism and toleration (e.g. the chronicle of William of Newburgh on the anti-Jewish riots in England in 1189-90).
Note:
Appeared also in "Chaucer and the Jews" (2002).
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