England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West.
- Author / Editor
- Heng, Geraldine.
England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West.
- Published
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- 116 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Elements: Elements in Religion and Violence
- Description
- Includes comparison of PrT with sources and analogues: the Anglo-Norman Hughes de Lincoln and two accounts--"The Child Slain by Jews" and "The Jewish Boy"--found in the Vernon manuscript. Analyzes the stories' various contributions to the racialization of England, arguing that PrT "conjures England as a new kind of space where Christians are a population ‘ycomen of Cristen blood’--a de facto race whose time had come, in a post-expulsion land."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations