Chaucer's "Ebrayk Josephus" and "The House of Fame."

Description: Investigates the reference to the "Judeo-Roman historian Josephus" in HF, 1429–36, exploring how his authority varies in the Middle Ages "depending on the extent to which he is understood as a Christian or a Jew," and showing how, in Chaucer's poem, "classical reception . . . is enmeshed in the intersecting discourses of race and authority." Explicates the imagery and diction associated with Josephusin HF, probes Chaucer's "own thoughts" about Jews, and integrates traditional classical reception with critical race studies.