Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
Edited by Samantha Zacher
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
Contents
SAMANTHA ZACHER
STEPHEN J. HARRIS
THOMAS N. HALL
DAMIAN FLEMING
KATHY LAVEZZO
ANDREW P. SCHEIL
DANIEL ANLEZARK
THOMAS D. HILL
CHARLES D. WRIGHT
CATHERINE E. KARKOV
ADAM S. COHEN
ASA SIMON MITTMAN
HEIDE ESTES
University of Toronto Press 2016
Toronto Buffalo London
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Imagining the Jew in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture / edited by Samantha Zacher.
(Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 21)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4426-4667-4 (cloth)
1. English literature Old English, ca. 4501100 History and criticism. 2. Christian literature, English (Old) History and criticism. 3. Jews in literature. 4. Antisemitism in literature. 5. Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. 6. Antisemitism England History Medieval, 5001500. 7. England Ethnic relations History Medieval, 5001500. 8. England Church history 4491066. 9. Great Britain History Anglo Saxon period, 4491066. I. Zacher, Samantha, 1973, editor II. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 21
PR179.J49I43 2016 829'.093529924 C2016-900727-8
University of Toronto Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto in the publication of this book.
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Contributors
Daniel Anlezark is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he teaches medieval English language and literature. He has edited and translated the Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, and biblical poems from manuscript Junius 11. He has published widely on Old English literature, on topics ranging from Anglo-Saxon biblical verse, to the influence of early Irish literature on Old English texts and role of the pre-Christian religion of the north in Old English poetry. In 2014 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to work on Anglo-Saxon literature and science.
Adam S. Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on medieval illuminated manuscripts and monastic art; publications include The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany (2000); Eye and Mind: Essays in Anglo-Saxon and Early Medieval Art by Robert Deshman (2010); Monastic Art and Architecture: 7001050, in The Cambridge History of Medieval Western Monasticism (forthcoming). With Linda Safran, he is the current editor of Gesta, the biannual journal of the International Center of Medieval Art.
Heide Estes is Professor of English at Monmouth University. She has published articles on Old English language and literature, gender studies, disability studies, and Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She is editor with Haruko Momma of Old English Across the Curriculum: Contexts and Pedagogies, a special issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching forthcoming in 2016. Her book Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination is under contract with Amsterdam University Press. She is the founder of the scholarly group Medieval Ecocriticisms and a member of the advisory board for the series Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures from Amsterdam University Press.
Damian Fleming is an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, where he directs the minor in Medieval Studies and teaches Old and Middle English, History of the English Language, and Latin. His research especially focuses on Anglo-Saxon perceptions of the Hebrew language and has appeared in Anglia, JEGP, Old English Literature and the Old Testament (2012) and Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon England (forthcoming).
Thomas N. Hall taught Old English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. He has written on Old English poetry and homilies, biblical and apocryphal literature, Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and medieval Latin sermons.
Stephen J. Harris is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is author of