Chaucer and the Jews
- Author / Editor
- Rex, Richard.
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.