• "Rhymes So Good the Likes of Which Have Not Been Seen in all the Land of Spain": Meir of Norwich and Friendship Poetry

    Author(s):
    Shamma Boyarin (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Medieval Studies
    Subject(s):
    Jews--Study and teaching, Middle Ages, English literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Meir of Norwich, Anglo-Jewish literature, friendship poems, Spanish Jews, Medieval Jewish studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/skf5-vy37
    Abstract:
    This short essay explores Susan Einbinder’s observation that the poetics of the medieval Anglo-Jewish poet Meir of Norwich show a unique mix of borrowing from the poetic schools of both Ashkenaz and Sepharad. Boyarin argues that Meir was discursively creating a school of Anglo-Hebrew poetics, one that he imagined drew from both of these established schools. Focused on two linked poems dedicated to an anonymous benefactor, this essay shows how Meir used a specific genre of poetry—the friendship poem—that was at the heart of the medieval Hispano-Hebrew poetic school and argues that Meir was constructing a (perhaps aspirational) English parallel.
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    Publisher:
    Arc Humanities Press
    Pub. Date:
    September 2019
    Journal:
    Early Middle English
    Volume:
    1
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    67 - 71
    ISSN:
    2516-9084
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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