Globalizing Jewish Communities: Mapping a Jewish Geography in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Krummel, Miriamne Ara.
Globalizing Jewish Communities: Mapping a Jewish Geography in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language 50 (2008): 121-42.
- Description
- A significant Jewish presence echoes in the wide-ranging geographies of PrT (Asia),Th (fairyland), and the Monk's stories of Peter of Spain and Antiochus (Judea). Chaucer evokes a sophisticated awareness of Jewishness that mitigates the Prioress's anti-Judaic paranoia.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Monk and His Tale