The Structure of Anti-Semitism in the 'Prioress's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Archer, John.
The Structure of Anti-Semitism in the 'Prioress's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 19 (1984): 46-54.
- Description
- The tradition of anti-Semitism lent itself to three kinds of imagery: murder-sacrifice (especially the Slaughter of the Innocents), economy, and law. Covert references in PrT to a shadowy image of the Old Testament God the Father makes him an evil power responsible for the Mosaic law and the death of his "son," Christ, the real and human God.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.