Criticism, Anti-Semitism and the 'Prioress's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Fradenburg, Louise O.
Criticism, Anti-Semitism and the 'Prioress's Tale'
- Published
- Exemplaria 1 (1989): 69-115.
- Description
- The differences between modernity and the Middle Ages can enable, rather than disable, interpretation. Applying modern critical theory to PrT can undo the absoluteness on which much historical thinking is based and can enlighten the dilemma of medievalists confronted with incompatibilities between their own values and the anti-Semitism of the medieval text. Failure to apply modern theory is actually a refusal of our own historicity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.