After Eden, out of Zion: Defining the Christian in Early English Literature

Author / Editor
Lampert, Lisa Renee.

Title
After Eden, out of Zion: Defining the Christian in Early English Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 450A

Description
In patriarchal tradition, the Christian is defined as male and spiritual; the female, as Other, Hebrew, and carnal. Lampert traces tensions in the parallel between women and Jews from Bernard de Clairvaux to Shakespeare's Shylock, including medieval drama and PrT.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.