Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance

Typologies of Violence and Desire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Hope Doherty-Harrison, Hope (Teaching Fellow in Medieval History of Art) Doherty-Harrison

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-02
Mått138 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt555 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieManchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Antal sidor336
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526183170

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Introduction: loving typology in medieval Christianity1 Imagining Synagoga and Ecclesia with the Song of Songs2 Types of Synagoga and the damaged garden in Sir Gowther3 Promises of love and violence in Sir Orfeo4 An Abrahamic lover?: typology and responsibility in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight5 Abrahamic wives and the Judgement of Solomon in Sir AmadaceConclusion: typology as violence and desire

An immensely learned and thought-provoking exploration of the connections between love and religion in medieval romance, Doherty-Harrison’s approach takes the reader beyond conventional readings and opens up a rich world of theological complexity and ambivalence. - Jacqueline Tasioulas, Professor of Medieval English & Scots, Clare College, University of CambridgeThis exhilarating study of Middle English romance investigates the genre’s complex attachments to Christian typology, and specifically to commentary on the Song of Songs and Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac. In a series of nuanced and sophisticated readings, Doherty-Harrison proves medieval romances to be 'vivid narratives of typological confusion,' which use 'medieval Christianity’s most powerful normative structure…typological anti-Judaism' to explore ambivalent individual relations of love, violence, sacrifice, and doubt. This bracing, highly original book will surely transform the way we understand the relationship between Christian theology and courtly romance. - Emily Steiner, Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania