English Historical Narratives of Jewish Child-Murder, Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale,' and the Date of Chaucer's Unknown Source
- Author / Editor
- Dahood, Roger.
English Historical Narratives of Jewish Child-Murder, Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale,' and the Date of Chaucer's Unknown Source
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 125-40.
- Description
- Dahood attributes several features of the plot of PrT to "non-Marian, historical English narratives of Jews crucifying English Christian boys" and explores how and when these features became attached to narratives of a chorister murdered by Jews. The tradition was influenced by tales of Hugh of Lincoln, the building of a shrine to him, and the development of a "Lincoln sub-group" of analogous tales (PrT and the Spanish version known as C9).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations