Cover -- The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction. Saming the Jew -- PART I. THE POTENTIAL OF SAMENESS -- Historiae. The Friar and the Foundling -- Chapter 1. The Same, but Not Quite -- Chapter 2. English "Jews" -- PART II. THE UNMARKED JEWESS -- Historiae. The Convert and the Cleaner -- Chapter 3. Anglo-Jewish Women -- Chapter 4. Mothers and Cannibals -- Chapter 5. Figures of Uncertainty -- Conclusion. Sameness and Sympathy -- Appendix 1. Sampson Son of Samuel of Northampton
Appendix 2. Jurnepin/Odard of Norwich -- Appendix 3. Alice the Convert of Worcester -- Appendix 4. The Jewess and the Priest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
In The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess, Adrienne Williams Boyarin explores medieval fantasies of Jewish-Christian indistinguishability. Identifying what she calls ""polemics of sameness,"" an essential part of anti-Jewish materials, she shows how the fine line between ""saming"" and ""othering"" reveals stereotypes of the unmarked Jewess
