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Although representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of Christian identity through strategic use of representations of Others: idealized Jewish patriarchs or demonized contemporary Jews; Woman represented as either virgin or whore. In Western thought, the Christian was figured as spiritual and masculine, defined in opposition to the carnal, feminine, and Jewish. Women and Jews are not simply the Other for the Christian exegetical tradition, however; they also represent sources of origin, as one cannot conceive of men without women or of Christianity without Judaism. The bifurcated representations of Woman and Jew found in the literature of the Middle Ages and beyond reflect the uneasy figurations of women and Jews as both insiders and outsiders to Christian society. 'Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare' provides the first extended examination of the linkages of gender and Jewish difference in late medieval and early modern English literature. Foc

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Author

Lampert, Lisa

Publisher

Penn, University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812202557

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction