Host Desecration, Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale,' and Prague 1389
- Author / Editor
- Stanbury, Sarah.
Host Desecration, Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale,' and Prague 1389
- Published
- Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 211-24.
- Description
- Accusations of eucharistic host desecration in Prague in 1389 may be read as a backdrop for PrT. Stanbury summarizes the events of mob violence that led to a massacre of Jews.
- Alternative Title
- Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.