The Jew in the Medieval Book Paperback: English Antisemitisms 1350–1500: 60 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 60) - Tapa blanda

Review of the hardback: '... a tremendous book ... meticulously researched and lucidly composed ...' Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Review of the hardback: '... outstanding ... nuanced and historically grounded ... [offering] a contextualized and scholarly approach to the subject.' The Times Literary Supplement

Review of the hardback: '... an important contribution ...' Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Review of the hardback: '... wide-ranging ... subtle ... valuable.' The Year's Work in English Studies

Review of the hardback: 'Bale ably combines capacious palaeographical study, insightful multidisciplinary readings, and fully documented and beautifully written prose. ... This book is an important critical resource and will find a place on bookshelves now and for years to come. Even more, Bale's The Jew in the Medieval Book is a pleasure to read.' Medium Aevum

Review of the hardback: 'The Jew in the Medieval Book is an outstanding contribution ... Bale is fluent in the latest theoretical innovations and very much engaged with confronting the ugly role that antisemitism continues to play on the world stage. What is so impressive about this volume is the way that Bale manages to weave this theoretical sophistication together with his smart and learned understandings of these medieval objects ... This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval representations of Jews, but its deep engagement with history and with manuscript culture should make this book important to many other scholars as well ... I strongly recommend it to anyone with interests in medieval spirituality, manuscript studies, and questions of gender and sexuality.' Speculum

Review of the hardback: 'Bale's research, detailing the representation of the Jew in the words and images of medieval manuscripts, simultaneously marks a particularly necessary intervention into, and departure from the established conversation about the Jew in medieval England. ... This book is an important critical resource and will find a place on bookshelves now and for years to come. Even more, Bale's The Jew in the Medieval Book is a pleasure to read ...' Miriamne Ara Krummel, University of Dayton

Review of the hardback: '... offers new and insightful analyses of the Jew in the medieval book ...' Anglia Newspaper for English Philology

Anthony Bale's research interests are in histories and theories of 'antisemitism', late medieval English literature, culture and popular religion, the poetry of John Lydgate, visual and intermedial artefacts, the history of the pre-expulsion medieval English Jewish community, late medieval travel literature, and the histories of blood libel and ritual murder.