Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England.

Introduction: Outside Looking In: Re-Membering the Medieval English Jew Categories of Race: ' Judæis Notris Angliæ ' and the 1275 Statute of Jewry Where Curse, Refrain, and Identity Intersect: The Poetry of Meir B. Elijah of Norwich Encountering Jews beyond the Kingdom of Cathay: Imagining Nation in Mandeville's Travelogue Text and Context: Tracing Chaucer's Moments of Jewishness Omissions of Antisemitism: Thomas Hoccleve and the Putative Jew Impossible Desires and Fabulistic Dreams: Conversion in the Croxton Play Epilogue: When Endings Are Beginnings