Chaucer and the Jews

Author / Editor
Rex, Richard.

Title
Chaucer and the Jews

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 45 (1984): 107-22.

Description
Cites evidence from medieval theology, sermon literature, etc., to show fourteenth-century religious tolerance of Jews and the belief that they could gain salvation. PrT is Chaucer's ironic comment on the Prioress, religious prejudice, and common miracle lore.
Reprinted in Richard Rex, "The Sins of Madame Eglentyne and Other Essays on Chaucer" (Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995).

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.