Cultic Anti-Judaism and Chaucer's 'Litel Clergeon'
- Author / Editor
- Despres, Denise, L.
Cultic Anti-Judaism and Chaucer's 'Litel Clergeon'
- Published
- Modern Philology 91 (1994): 413-27.
- Description
- England's implementation of the Fourth Lateran Council's legislation of 1215, two anti-Judaism sermon exempla from medieval manuscripts, and the "child-as-Host" motif suggest how the "ideology of bodily and social purity could become salient for the fourteenth-century audience" of Chaucer's PrT. Members of Chaucer's pilgrim-audience experience a "miracle of wholeness" in the same manner as would the audience of the sermon exempla.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.