Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England

Author / Editor
Weissberger, Barbara F.

Title
Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39 (2009): 703-25.

Description
Contrasts PrT with Damián de Vegas's "Memoria del Santo Niño de La Guardia" (1544), exploring mother figures in the works and arguing that the latter work (like Spanish tradition more generally) reflects the influence of the "converso," a hybrid figure who blurs Christian/Jewish boundaries.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations