The Matter of Israel: The Use of Little Children in the Miracles of the Holy Virgin During the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Tejera Llano, Dionisia.
The Matter of Israel: The Use of Little Children in the Miracles of the Holy Virgin During the Middle Ages
- Published
- SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 05 (1995): 7-17.
- Description
- Compares PrT with Gonzalo de Berceo's thirteenth-century "Judiezno" (Little Jewish Child) from his "Los Milagros de Nuestra Seʹora."
- Featuring a Jewish child who has a vision of Mary, Berceo's tale reflects a more tolerant attitude toward Jews than does Chaucer's. The attitude in Berceo's tale is consistent with Spanish social history.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.