The Blood Libel Legend
- Author / Editor
- Dundes, Alan, ed.
The Blood Libel Legend
- Published
- Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.
- Physical Description
- ix, 385 pp.
- Description
- A collection of essays treating the legend of Jews killing Christians, particularly children. Fourteen essays cover such areas as case histories, folkloristic tales and literary texts, surveys of the legend in different locales, ritual-murder reports, and analyses of the legend ranging from its potential source to its impact in light of psychoanalytic theory. Chaucer and his works are mentioned passim. Reprints Nevill Coghill's modernization of PrT. For an essay that pertains to PrT, search for Blood Libel Legend under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.