'The Prioress's Tale' in Context: Good and Bad Reports of Non-Christians in Fourteenth-Century England
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
'The Prioress's Tale' in Context: Good and Bad Reports of Non-Christians in Fourteenth-Century England
- Published
- Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd ser., 3 (2007): 71-129.
- Description
- Kelly surveys depictions of non-Christians in Chaucer's works and in works familiar to Chaucer: "Speculum historiale" by Vincent of Beauvais, "Legenda aurea" by Jacob of Voragine, English legendaries, miracles of the Virgin, pictorial tradition, and works by John Bromyard, Bishop Brinton, and William Langland. Attitudes toward non-Christians, including Jews, vary in these works (including Chaucer's), depending on "mood and circumstance."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.