Miracles of the Virgin, Medieval Anti-Semitism, and 'Prioress's Tale'

Author / Editor
Frank, Robert Worth,Jr.

Title
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.