Miracles of the Virgin, Medieval Anti-Semitism, and 'Prioress's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Frank, Robert Worth,Jr.
Miracles of the Virgin, Medieval Anti-Semitism, and 'Prioress's Tale'
- Published
- Larry D. Benson and Siegfried Wenzel, eds. The Wisdom of Poetry (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, 1982), pp. 177-88.
- Description
- Anti-Semitism is a commonplace in miracles of the Virgin, the special enmity between the Virgin and the Jews deriving from the apocryphal "Transitus." Some miracles end in conversion of the Jews; others in their destruction wholesale; PrT in punishment of only the guilty.
- Alternative Title
- The Wisdom of Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.