Madame Eglentyne in Her Day and Ours: Anti-Semitism in 'The Prioress's Tale' and a Modern Parallel
- Author / Editor
- Orsten, Elisabeth M.
Madame Eglentyne in Her Day and Ours: Anti-Semitism in 'The Prioress's Tale' and a Modern Parallel
- Published
- Florilegium 11 (1992): 82-100.
- Description
- The Prioress's combination of pious sentiment, moral blindness, and indifference to official church doctrine can be paralleled in a 1985 attempt, in an Austrian village, to defend and preserve an anti-Semitic legend about the murder of a three-year-old and the local cult that grow up around it.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.