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Far from being anti-Semitic, the alliterative Siege of Jerusalem presents secularized Jews whose martial courage and civilian suffering undermine the theological pretensions of a mercenary Roman war machine. Both conqueror and besieged speak to anxieties about the late medieval expansionist energies of English empire.
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Kathy Lavezzo, Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community,1000–1534 ( Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006 ), 1–26.
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Schiff, R.P. (2008). The Instructive Other Within: Secularized Jews in the Siege of Jerusalem. In: Cohen, J.J. (eds) Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614123_8
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