Prioress's tale
TitreThe Prioress's tale
Auteur
Call number305.8924/0137
N° d'objet04991d
Lieu de publicationMadison, Wisconsin, United States
Année de publication
1991
Paginationpp91-90
MatérielArticle
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