Prioress's tale
العنوانThe Prioress's tale
مؤلف
Call number305.8924/0137
رقم الكائن04991d
مكان النشرMadison, Wisconsin, United States
سنة النشر
1991
التوريقpp91-90
مادةArticle
ردمك0299131149
NotesArticle from the book 'The Blood libel legend : a casebook in anti-Semitic folklore' pp72-90
الوصف
The most famous literary articulation of Jewish ritual murder is Chaucer's Prioress's Tale, which is quoted here. It involves ritual murder rather than the blood libel. Chaucer did not invent the story. One of the issues is whether Chaucer himself was anti-semitic - one view is that he was very much a product of his own 14th century environment, and that it was natural for him to have shared anti-semitic sentiments.The opposing view is that he was induging in satire