'Cursed Folk of Herodes Al New': Supersessionist Typology and Chaucer's Prioress
- Author / Editor
- D'Arcy, Anne Marie.
'Cursed Folk of Herodes Al New': Supersessionist Typology and Chaucer's Prioress
- Published
- Elaine Treharne, ed. Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002), pp. 117-36.
- Description
- Examines traditional depictions of Jews; points to a parallel between the murder of the clergeon in PrT and ritual murder; links the clergeon with Christ and the Prioress with the Virgin; and concludes that PrT functions as a divinely inspired condemnation of blasphemers, doubters, and the Prioress's detractors.
- Alternative Title
- Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.