Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 -- THE JEWISH MOTHER-IN-LAW: SYNAGOGA -- AND THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE -- CHRISTINE M. ROSE -- CHAPTER 2 -- THE PARDONER'S "HOLY JEW" -- WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAUCER'S PRIORESS, THE JEWS, AND THE MUSLIMS -- SHEILA DELANY -- CHAPTER 4 -- "JEWES WERK" IN SIR THOPAS -- JEROME MANDEL -- CHAPTER 5 -- POSTCOLONIAL CHAUCER AND THE VIRTUAL JEW -- SYLVIA TOMASCH -- Part II Chaucerian Contexts -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAUCER AND THE TRANSLATION OF THE -- JEWISH SCRIPTURES -- MARY DOVE -- CHAPTER 7 -- READING BIBLICAL OUTLAWS: THE "RISE OF DAVID" -- STORY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY -- TIMOTHY S. JONES -- CHAPTER 8 -- ROBERT HOLCOT ON THE JEWS -- NANCY L. TURNER -- CHAPTER 9 -- THE PROTEAN JEW IN THE VERNON MANUSCRIPT -- DENISE L. DESPRES -- CHAPTER 10 -- THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM AND AUGUSTINIAN HISTORIANS: -- WRITING ABOUT JEWS IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND -- ELISA NARIN VAN COURT -- CHAPTER 11 -- "HOUSE DEVIL, TOWN SAINT": ANTI-SEMITISM AND -- HAGIOGRAPHY IN MEDIEVAL SUFFOLK -- ANTHONY P. BALE -- Part II Chaucer, Jews, and Us -- CHAPTER 12 -- ENGLISHNESS AND MEDIEVAL ANGLO-JEWRY -- COLIN RICHMOND -- CHAPTER 13 -- TEACHING CHAUCER TO THE "CURSED FOLK OF HEROD" -- GILLIAN STEINBERG -- CHAPTER 14 -- POSITIVELY MEDIEVAL: TEACHING AS A -- MISSIONARY ACTIVITY -- JUDITH S. NEAMAN