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In my dissertation, I examine the representation of Jews in Old English literature. Despite the absence of Jews in Anglo-Saxon society, Old English poets are quite interested in Jews, making them the focus of several poems, including Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, Judith, Andreas, and…

Gender in tenth-century Old English religious poetry is intimately linked to representations of the body, as well as to medieval exegesis concerning the relationship between the spirit and the flesh. The anonymous poem Judith and Cynewulfs Juliana and Elene all present a masculi…