'The Siege of Jerusalem' and Augustinian Historians: Writing about Jews in Fourteenth-Century England
- Author / Editor
- Narin van Court, Elisa.
'The Siege of Jerusalem' and Augustinian Historians: Writing about Jews in Fourteenth-Century England
- Published
- Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 227-48.
- Description
- "The Siege of Jerusalem" is not simply another anti-Semitic text but instead one that responds humanely to the Jewish plight. Evidence indicates that this poem was written by an Augustinian canon at Bolton Priory, were there was regard for the doctrine of toleration.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.