Table of Contents

Part I Part I Chaucer Texts; Chapter 1 1 The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale, Christine M. Rose; Chapter 2 2 The Pardoner's “Holy Jew”, William Chester Jordan; Chapter 3 3 Chaucer's Prioress, the Jews, and the Muslims, Sheila Delany; Chapter 4 4 “Jewes werk” in Sir Thopas, Jerome Mandel; Chapter 5 5 Postcolonial Chaucer and the Virtual Jew, Sylvia Tomasch; Part II Part II Chaucerian Contexts; Chapter 6 6 Chaucer and the Translation of the Jewish Scriptures, Mary Dove; Chapter 7 7 Reading Biblical Outlaws: The “Rise of David” Story in the Fourteenth Century, Timothy S. Jones; Chapter 8 8 Robert Holcot on the Jews, Nancy L. Turner; Chapter 9 9 The Protean Jew in the Vernon Manuscript, Denise L. Despres; Chapter 10 10 The Siege of Jerusalem and Augustinian Historians: Writing about Jews in Fourteenth-Century England, Elisa Narin van Court; Chapter 11 11 “House Devil, Town Saint” :Anti-Semitism and Hagiography in Medieval Suffolk, Anthony P. Bale; Part III PART III Chaucer, Jews, and Us; Chapter 12 12 Englishness and Medieval Anglo-Jewry, Colin Richmond; Chapter 13 13 Teaching Chaucer to the “Cursed Folk of Herod”, Gillian Steinberg; Chapter 14 14 Positively Medieval: Teaching as a Missionary Activity, Judith S. Neaman;

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"In short, I would say that everyone who teaches or is seriously interested in Chaucer should get a hold of this book." -- John Michael Crafton, Christianity andLiterature
"...this book should be in every college and university library." -- Lawrence Besserman, Hebrew University, Speculum