Gender-Crossing in the 'Prioress' Tale': Chaucer's Satire on Theological Anti-Semitism?
- Author / Editor
- Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
Gender-Crossing in the 'Prioress' Tale': Chaucer's Satire on Theological Anti-Semitism?
- Published
- Cithara 33.2 (1994): 11-17.
- Description
- Chaucer satirizes the anti-Semitism and sexual restrictiveness of the medieval church by presenting the serpent-Satan as a representation of Judaic reproduction denied the celibate Prioress. Rudat suggests the Prioress terminated an earlier unwanted prenancy in an action underlying the murder and disposal of the little clergeon in her tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.