The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Rose, Christine M.
The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- Maud Burnett McInerney, ed. Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays. Garland Medieval Casebooks, no. 20; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, no. 2037. (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 191-226.
- Description
- Explores representations of the mother-in-law as a figure of Jewry and the synagogue in Western literary tradition. Although MLT overtly poses the Orient as the malevolent Other through the Sultaness, it also suggests in veiled ways that Jews threaten Christians.
- Contributor
- McInerney, Maud Burnett,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.