Heather Blurton: 1 book
The Critics and the Prioress
Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale’s antisemitism and its “Chaucerianism”—its...
