Motherhood and Ritual Murder in Medieval Spain and England
- Author / Editor
- Weissberger, Barbara F.
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