Prioress's tale
TitleThe Prioress's tale
Author
Call number305.8924/0137
Object number04991d
Place of publicationMadison, Wisconsin, United States
PublisherThe University of Wisconsin Press
Year of publication
1991
Physical descriptionpp91-90
MaterialArticle
ISBN0299131149
NotesArticle from the book 'The Blood libel legend : a casebook in anti-Semitic folklore' pp72-90
Description
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