Wild Horses, Justice, and Charity in the 'Prioress's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Rex, Richard.
Wild Horses, Justice, and Charity in the 'Prioress's Tale'
- Published
- Papers on Language and Literature 22 (1986): 339-51.
- Description
- The reference at the end of the tale to the offending Jews being drawn by wild horses and hanged (not in the tale's analogues) points out the cruelty of the Prioress. Reserved for traitors, equine quartering was rare in England.
- Reprinted in Richard Rex, "The Sins of Madame Eglentyne and Other Essays" (Newark, NJ: University Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.