Complex Identities: Selves and Others

Author / Editor
Lavezzo, Kathy.

Title
Complex Identities: Selves and Others

Published
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 434-56.

Description
Lavezzo considers the "complexities of medieval identity formation by surveying the depiction of Jews and Saracens in English" between Bede and the late fifteenth century. Includes comments on MLT and its presentation of Britain as a medieval "global backwater," analogous to Syria in its relation to Rome.

Alternative Title
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale