Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance
Typologies of Violence and Desire
Seiten
2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8317-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8317-0 (ISBN)
This book examines the theological questions posed by portrayals of love, sexual violence, and sacrifice in medieval romance. The book argues that these themes are by nature entangled with the discourse of anti-Judaism, which can be turned inwardly to expose irresolution within Christianity itself. -- .
Love and anti-Judaism is a new examination of medieval romance for the questions it poses of the most significant events in Christian history. Providing new readings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther and Sir Amadace, the book argues that romance explores depictions of love—and the sacrifices it may necessitate—in the Hebrew Bible, especially where they do not easily fit into interpretations asserting that this history must prefigure Christ and the crucifixion. An examination of anti-Judaism as a discourse of violence and desire that could be turned inwardly to expose the irresolution in Christianity, this book will provoke new investigations into the religious crises of medieval romance. -- .
Love and anti-Judaism is a new examination of medieval romance for the questions it poses of the most significant events in Christian history. Providing new readings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther and Sir Amadace, the book argues that romance explores depictions of love—and the sacrifices it may necessitate—in the Hebrew Bible, especially where they do not easily fit into interpretations asserting that this history must prefigure Christ and the crucifixion. An examination of anti-Judaism as a discourse of violence and desire that could be turned inwardly to expose the irresolution in Christianity, this book will provoke new investigations into the religious crises of medieval romance. -- .
Hope Doherty-Harrison is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh -- .
Introduction: loving typology in medieval Christianity
1 Imagining Synagoga and Ecclesia with the Song of Songs
2 Types of Synagoga and the damaged garden in Sir Gowther
3 Promises of love and violence in Sir Orfeo
4 An Abrahamic lover?: typology and responsibility in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
5 Abrahamic wives and the Judgement of Solomon in Sir Amadace
Conclusion: typology as violence and desire -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 black and white |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 555 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8317-X / 152618317X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8317-0 / 9781526183170 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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