The footsteps of Israel : understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England
Title:
The footsteps of Israel : understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England
JLCTITLE245:
Andrew P. Scheil.
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Publication Information:
Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
Physical Description:
xii, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780472114085
Abstract:
"Andrew P. Scheil approaches the Anglo-Saxon understanding of Jews from a variety of directions, including a survey of the lengthy history of the ideology of England as the New Israel, its sources in late antique texts and its manifestation in both Old English and Latin texts from Anglo-Saxon England. In tandem with this perhaps more sympathetic understanding of the Jews is a darker vision of anti-Judaism, associating the Jews in an emotional fashion with the materiality of the body." "In exploring the complex ramifications of this history, the author is the first to assemble and study references to Jews in Anglo-Saxon culture. For this reason, The Footsteps of Israel will be an important source for Anglo-Saxonists, scholars of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, scholars of medieval anti-semitism in general, students of Jewish history, and medievalists interested in cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-364) and index.
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Contents:
Pt. 1. Bede, the Jews, and the exegetical imagination -- Ch. 1. Bede and hate -- Ch. 2. Bede and love -- Pt. 2. The Populus Israhel - metaphor, image, exemplum -- Introduction : excursus on Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica -- Ch. 3. The Populus Israhel tradition -- Ch. 4. The Populus Israhel tradition in Britain -- Pt. 3. Jews, fury and the body -- Ch. 5. Anti-Judaic rhetoric in the Vercelli and Blickling manuscripts -- Ch. 6. Anti-Judaism and somatic fiction -- Pt. 4. Aelfric, anti-Judaism and the tenth century -- Ch. 7. Aelfric's De populo Israhel -- Ch. 8. Aelfric's Maccabees.