Prioress's tale
TitoloThe Prioress's tale
Autore
Call number305.8924/0137
Numero oggetto04991d
Luogo di pubblicazioneMadison, Wisconsin, United States
Anno di pubblicazione
1991
Paginazionepp91-90
MaterialeArticle
ISBN0299131149
NotesArticle from the book 'The Blood libel legend : a casebook in anti-Semitic folklore' pp72-90
Descrizione
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