The Bodies of Jews in the Late Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Kruger Steven F.
The Bodies of Jews in the Late Middle Ages
- Published
- James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 301-23.
- Description
- Considers how the bodies of Jews are related to Christian bodily miracles in Chaucer's PrT and the Croxton "Play of the Sacrament." Kruger clarifies the relation between the positive valuation of the body in late-medieval spirituality and the attack on body often present in the treatment of Jews.
- Alternative Title
- Idea of Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale