Lisa Lampert‐Weissig
Biographic Data
| ID | 5870249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Lampert‐Weissig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lampert‐Weissig |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSIG L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7053-6738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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The Wandering Jew as Monster
Can we think of the legendary Wandering Jew as a monster? The figure does not easily fit the common definition of a monster and yet, the Wandering Jew is extraordinary. In the medieval and early modern sources of the legend, the Wandering Jew, who once sinned against Christ and is therefore doomed to be an immortal eyewitness to the Passion, serves as a model for the faithful. In his 1796 gothic novel, The Monk, Matthew Lewis creates a new strand…
The Transnational Wandering Jew and the Medieval English Nation
This essay focuses on the legendary Wandering Jew in order to explore how elements of transnationalism figure into representations of the Jew and Jewish‐Christian relations in medieval England and how the Jew figured into emergent English nationalism
Chaucer’s Pardoner and the Jews
The role of the Jews in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale extends well beyond the few direct mentions of them. A focus on representations of Jews, both explicit and implicit, in The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale reveals new connections between the Pardoner’s sinfulness, his sexuality, and his relics. The essay begins with analysis of the tale’s allusion to the figure of the Wandering Jew through the figure of the Old Man. I argue for the Wand…
The Wandering Jew as Relic
Research Article| September 01 2015 The Wandering Jew as Relic Lisa Lampert-Weissig Lisa Lampert-Weissig Literature Department, UC San Diego [email protected] Lisa Lampert-Weissig holds a PhD in English literature from UC Berkeley. She is professor of English Literature and Comparative Medieval Studies at UC San Diego, where she is also the current holder of the Katzin chair in Jewish Civilization. Her publications include Gender and Jewish Diffe…
Left Behind , the Holocaust, and that Old Time Antisemitism
A Latter Day Eve
Critics have demonstrated how Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga reinforces the notion that the appropriate roles for women are those of wife and mother. Viewed from a literary historical perspective, however, the Twilight saga can also be seen as reinterpretation of the Genesis story, told from a female point of view as a vampire narrative. Meyer's “New Eve” is part of a literary tradition that springs from Paradise Lost. Meyer's portrayal of the c…
The Jew in the Medieval Book
The Transnational Wandering Jew and the Medieval English Nation
This essay focuses on the legendary Wandering Jew in order to explore how elements of transnationalism figure into representations of the Jew and Jewish‐Christian relations in medieval England and how the Jew figured into emergent English nationalism
Chaucer’s Pardoner and the Jews
The role of the Jews in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale extends well beyond the few direct mentions of them. A focus on representations of Jews, both explicit and implicit, in The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale reveals new connections between the Pardoner’s sinfulness, his sexuality, and his relics. The essay begins with analysis of the tale’s allusion to the figure of the Wandering Jew through the figure of the Old Man. I argue for the Wand…
Left Behind , the Holocaust, and that Old Time Antisemitism
The Jew in the Medieval Book
A Latter Day Eve
Critics have demonstrated how Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga reinforces the notion that the appropriate roles for women are those of wife and mother. Viewed from a literary historical perspective, however, the Twilight saga can also be seen as reinterpretation of the Genesis story, told from a female point of view as a vampire narrative. Meyer's “New Eve” is part of a literary tradition that springs from Paradise Lost. Meyer's portrayal of the c…
Left Behind , the Holocaust, and that Old Time Antisemitism
The Wandering Jew as Relic
Research Article| September 01 2015 The Wandering Jew as Relic Lisa Lampert-Weissig Lisa Lampert-Weissig Literature Department, UC San Diego [email protected] Lisa Lampert-Weissig holds a PhD in English literature from UC Berkeley. She is professor of English Literature and Comparative Medieval Studies at UC San Diego, where she is also the current holder of the Katzin chair in Jewish Civilization. Her publications include Gender and Jewish Diffe…
The Transnational Wandering Jew and the Medieval English Nation
This essay focuses on the legendary Wandering Jew in order to explore how elements of transnationalism figure into representations of the Jew and Jewish‐Christian relations in medieval England and how the Jew figured into emergent English nationalism
Chaucer’s Pardoner and the Jews
The role of the Jews in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale extends well beyond the few direct mentions of them. A focus on representations of Jews, both explicit and implicit, in The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale reveals new connections between the Pardoner’s sinfulness, his sexuality, and his relics. The essay begins with analysis of the tale’s allusion to the figure of the Wandering Jew through the figure of the Old Man. I argue for the Wand…
The Wandering Jew as Monster
Can we think of the legendary Wandering Jew as a monster? The figure does not easily fit the common definition of a monster and yet, the Wandering Jew is extraordinary. In the medieval and early modern sources of the legend, the Wandering Jew, who once sinned against Christ and is therefore doomed to be an immortal eyewitness to the Passion, serves as a model for the faithful. In his 1796 gothic novel, The Monk, Matthew Lewis creates a new strand…
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Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)