Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45628
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Boyarin , Adrienne Williams
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  • Title: Alice the Convert of Worcester
  • Source: The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess. Adrienne Williams Boyarin.   Edited by Adrienne Williams Boyarin, translator of Appendix 3 Alice the Convert of Worcester.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.  Pages 239 - 242. Available with a subscription from De Gruyter: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297508-014
  • Description: Provides the original texts and English translations of three letters by and about Alice of Worcester. The first two are from Alice to Edward I and to Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells and chancellor of England. The third letter is from King Edward to Worcester Cathedral Priory.
  • Article Type: Edition of Text ; Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Conversion, Religious Jews Kings Patronage
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 13
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  • Related Resources: "As with part one, this section opens with two historiae. First, Boyarin engages in an act of creative and speculative historicism to unpack the life of Alice of Worcester, a late thirteenth-century convert to Christianity, via two letters she wrote to Edward I. For Boyarin, Alice’s situation “at the interface of religions, languages and scholarly disciplines” presents a rubric to unpack the depictions of Anglo-Jewish women she will discuss in the remainder of her monograph (103)."
    [From the review written by Kathy Lavezzo of The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess, by Adrienne Williams Boyarin. Medieval Review (TMR ID: 22.02.20). Reproduced by permission of the Medieval Review.]
  • Author's Affiliation: University of Victoria, British Columbia
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  • Year of Publication: 2021.
  • Language: English ; French ; Latin
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780812252590 (print); 9780812297508 (online)