The Respected Oral Tradition Which Promoted the Calumny of the Jews

Author / Editor
Caspi, Mishael M.,with Debra Synder.

Title
The Respected Oral Tradition Which Promoted the Calumny of the Jews

Published
Mishael M. Caspi, ed. Oral Tradition and Hispanic Literature: Essays in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 81-109.

Description
Because of oral anti-Jewish tales of blood libel, PrT, in attitude and some details, was for Chaucer's audience a familiar account. PrT and the ballad "The Jew's Daughter" (first recorded in the eighteenth century) indicate how literary and oral accounts interacted to produce medieval anti-Semitism.

Contributor
Synder, Debra.

Alternative Title
Oral Tradition and Hispanic Literature: Essays in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.