The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton.

Author / Editor
Lavezzo, Kathy.

Title
The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton.

Published
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.

Physical Description
ix, 374 pp.

Description
Addresses historical and social complexities of anti-Semitism and Jewish--Christian dynamics in medieval English texts. Chapter 3, "The Minster and the Privy: Jews, Lending, and the Making of Christian Space in Chaucer's England," focuses on Chaucer's understanding of privies and Jewish neighborhoods in London. Considers PrT, MerT, ShT, and HF.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Prioress and Her Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Shipman and His Tale
House of Fame
Chaucer's Life