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Kathy Lavezzo - The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton - 9781501703157 - V9781501703157
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The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton

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Description for The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton Hardback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 24, 17 black & white halftones, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 716.
England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious blood libel was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. England also enforced legislation demanding that Jews wear a badge of infamy, and in 1290, it became the first European nation to expel forcibly all of its Jewish residents. In The Accommodated Jew, Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England's rejection of the Jew and the centrality of Jews to classic English ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501703157
SKU
V9781501703157
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Ref
99-1

About Kathy Lavezzo
Kathy Lavezzo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534 and The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton, both from Cornell, and editor of Imagining a Medieval English Nation.

Reviews for The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton
This intricate, thorough, and wide-ranging analysis introduces the locations and spaces allegedly occupied by Jews from circa the eight to tenth through the seventeenth centuries.... Another quieter... part of Lavezzo's project involves intervening in the way that medievalists think through what constitutes 'the Jew'.... Lavezzo builds a strong argument for her reading of an 'accommodated Jaw' in six richly-detailed chapters ... Read more

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