Prejudice and Chaucer's Prioress
- Author / Editor
- Wurtele, Douglas (J.)
Prejudice and Chaucer's Prioress
- Published
- Revue de l'Universite d'Ottawa 55:1 (1985): 33-43.
- Description
- The Prioress's synthesis of elements from the legends of the martyred schoolboy suggests that she is complying with papal bulls that prohibit accusing Jews of kidnapping and ritual murders, but muances of PrT, and association with Hugh of Lincoln, indicate the popular view of the Jews' culpability.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.