Heather Blurton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1197576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Blurton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Blurton |
| SIGNATURE | BLURTON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7100-2159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert
Play Time
Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama. Daisy Black. Manchester Medieval Literature 36. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. xii +234 pp. £80. - Volume 75 Issue 4
Fashioning Abbot Geoffrey
Sometime around the year 1110, an ambitious schoolmaster named Geoffrey of Gorron borrowed some copes from the monastery of St. Albans as costumes for a St. Catherine play. Disastrously, a fire destroyed the copes and with them Geoffrey’s ambitions: unable to reimburse the cost of the copes, Geoffrey offered himself to the abbey in recompense and, in time, rose to become its abbot. That, at least, is the narrative extrapolated from the Gesta abba…
Introduction
This special issue, “Neighbors, Neighborhoods, Neighboring,” engages some of the ways the ethical concept of the neighbor — in both its early articulations and contemporary theorizations — is curre
The Critics and the Prioress
Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer's Prioress's Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale's antisemitism and its "Chaucerianism"—its fitness or aptness as part of the Chaucerian canon—are significant topics of reflection for modern readers, who worry about the Tale's ethica…
The Critics and the Prioress
The Language of the Liturgy in the Life and Miracles of William of Norwich
When Thomas of Monmouth first felt compelled to record for posterity the Life and Miracles of William of Norwich, the vita of a boy purported to have been ritually murdered by Jews in Norwich, England, in 1144 (thus becoming the victim of the first recorded accusation of ritual murder in Western Europe), he chose to do so in language replete with typological and liturgical resonance: Or, as I rather believe, because by the ordering of divine prov…
The history of an incorrect term’
Richard of Devizes's Cronicon , Menippean Satire, and the Jews of Winchester
This article reconsiders the critical orthodoxy concerning the genre of Richard of Devizes's Cronicon Richardi Divisensis de Tempore Regis Richardi Primi, suggesting that in this chronicle Richard of Devizes engages with the tropes of Menippean satire. Drawing in particular on Bakhtin's analysis of Menippean satire, it further suggests that this new understanding of the genre of the Cronicon has important implications for understanding Richard of…
Guibert of Nogent and the Subject of History
Introduction
This special issue, “Neighbors, Neighborhoods, Neighboring,” engages some of the ways the ethical concept of the neighbor — in both its early articulations and contemporary theorizations — is curre
The Language of the Liturgy in the Life and Miracles of William of Norwich
When Thomas of Monmouth first felt compelled to record for posterity the Life and Miracles of William of Norwich, the vita of a boy purported to have been ritually murdered by Jews in Norwich, England, in 1144 (thus becoming the victim of the first recorded accusation of ritual murder in Western Europe), he chose to do so in language replete with typological and liturgical resonance: Or, as I rather believe, because by the ordering of divine prov…
The history of an incorrect term’
Richard of Devizes's Cronicon , Menippean Satire, and the Jews of Winchester
This article reconsiders the critical orthodoxy concerning the genre of Richard of Devizes's Cronicon Richardi Divisensis de Tempore Regis Richardi Primi, suggesting that in this chronicle Richard of Devizes engages with the tropes of Menippean satire. Drawing in particular on Bakhtin's analysis of Menippean satire, it further suggests that this new understanding of the genre of the Cronicon has important implications for understanding Richard of…
Guibert of Nogent and the Subject of History
Richard of Devizes's Cronicon , Menippean Satire, and the Jews of Winchester
This article reconsiders the critical orthodoxy concerning the genre of Richard of Devizes's Cronicon Richardi Divisensis de Tempore Regis Richardi Primi, suggesting that in this chronicle Richard of Devizes engages with the tropes of Menippean satire. Drawing in particular on Bakhtin's analysis of Menippean satire, it further suggests that this new understanding of the genre of the Cronicon has important implications for understanding Richard of…
The history of an incorrect term’
The Language of the Liturgy in the Life and Miracles of William of Norwich
When Thomas of Monmouth first felt compelled to record for posterity the Life and Miracles of William of Norwich, the vita of a boy purported to have been ritually murdered by Jews in Norwich, England, in 1144 (thus becoming the victim of the first recorded accusation of ritual murder in Western Europe), he chose to do so in language replete with typological and liturgical resonance: Or, as I rather believe, because by the ordering of divine prov…
The Critics and the Prioress
Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer's Prioress's Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale's antisemitism and its "Chaucerianism"—its fitness or aptness as part of the Chaucerian canon—are significant topics of reflection for modern readers, who worry about the Tale's ethica…
The Critics and the Prioress
Introduction
This special issue, “Neighbors, Neighborhoods, Neighboring,” engages some of the ways the ethical concept of the neighbor — in both its early articulations and contemporary theorizations — is curre
Fashioning Abbot Geoffrey
Sometime around the year 1110, an ambitious schoolmaster named Geoffrey of Gorron borrowed some copes from the monastery of St. Albans as costumes for a St. Catherine play. Disastrously, a fire destroyed the copes and with them Geoffrey’s ambitions: unable to reimburse the cost of the copes, Geoffrey offered himself to the abbey in recompense and, in time, rose to become its abbot. That, at least, is the narrative extrapolated from the Gesta abba…
Play Time
Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama. Daisy Black. Manchester Medieval Literature 36. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. xii +234 pp. £80. - Volume 75 Issue 4
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert
Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators
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