Faith and Fantasy: The Texts of the Jews
- Author / Editor
- Weinhouse, Linda.
Faith and Fantasy: The Texts of the Jews
- Published
- Medieval Encounters 5: 391-408, 1999.
- Description
- In PrT, as in much canonical medieval literature, Jews are largely voiceless and depicted as vile. The lamentations, or "kinot," of Hebrew liturgical poets who mourn the Jewish victims of the crusades record the voices of medieval Jews. The imagery and motifs of the kinot are often ironically reminiscent of PrT, including concern with mother/child relations, with study, with defilement, etc.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.