Reappraising 'The Prioress's Tale': Anti-Judaism, Sentimentality, and High Pathos

Author / Editor
Giaccherini, Enrico.

Title
Reappraising 'The Prioress's Tale': Anti-Judaism, Sentimentality, and High Pathos

Published
Fausto Ciompi, ed. One of Us: Studi Inglesi e Conradiani Offerti a Mario Curreli (Pisa, Italy: ETS, 2009), pp. 155-66.

Description
Distinguishes between "anti-Judaism" and "anti-Semitism," and reads the former as a motif that combines with other devices to produce the excessive pathos of PrT, a form of late-medieval emotional intensity.

Contributor
Ciompi, Fausto, ed.

Alternative Title
One of Us: Studi Inglesi e Conradiani Offerti a Mario Curreli.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale