The Jewish Connection: Chaucer and the Paris Jews, 1394

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
The Jewish Connection: Chaucer and the Paris Jews, 1394

Published
David Gay and Stephen R. Reimer, eds. Locating the Past/Discovering the Present: Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010), pp. 1-21.

Description
Delany explores the "imbrication" of life and art in PrT and the expulsion of Jews from France in 1394. She gauges Chaucer's contact with Jews and describes the conditions under which Jews lived in fourteenth-century France, specifically the results of the supposed abduction of Denis Machaut, a Jewish convert to Christianity. Delany identifies elements that PrT shares with history rather than what it shares with literary analogues.

Contributor
Gay, David, ed.
Reimer, Stephen R., ed.

Alternative Title
Locating the Past/Discovering the Present: Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Chaucer's Life