Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance : Typologies of Violence and Desire (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

Doherty-Harrison, Hope

Manchester University Press（2025/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526183170

Full Description

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.

Contents

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