"The Childe of Bristowe," "The Prioress’s Tale," and the Possibility of Neighbor Love.
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Hannah.
"The Childe of Bristowe," "The Prioress’s Tale," and the Possibility of Neighbor Love.
- Published
- Exemplaria 32.3 (2020): 187-205
- Description
- Combines neighbor theory with Pauline notions of debt, payment, and the "dual commandment" to love God and neighbor, exploring usury, neighborly obligation, Christian-Jewish proximity, and market economy in "The Childe of Bristowe" and PrT--found together in London, British Library, MS Harley 2382. Emphasizes how in PrT, unlike in "Childe," "usury operates as a foundational imaginary" foreclosing any possibility of the Christian community conceiving of the Jews as neighbors or individuals.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations