"O Hebraic People!": English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene.
- Author / Editor
- Nisse, Ruth.
"O Hebraic People!": English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 166-83.
- Description
- Surveys the extant Anglo-Hebrew authors, lost to Chaucer and his readers, which are, "nevertheless, a productive memory for his current readers." Catalogues a range of authors and genres, showing the flowering of the Jewish literary environment in Angevin England. Special emphasis is given to Berekhiah Ha-Nakdan, a Hebrew grammarian of the twelfth or thirteenth century, and his "Fox Fables."
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism