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The Transnational Wandering Jew and the Medieval English Nation
Author(s) -
LampertWeissig Lisa
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/lic3.12372
Subject(s) - nationalism , transnationalism , literature , judaism , order (exchange) , art , history , archaeology , finance , politics , political science , law , economics
This essay focuses on the legendary Wandering Jew in order to explore how elements of transnationalism figure into representations of the Jew and Jewish‐Christian relations in medieval England and how the Jew figured into emergent English nationalism.