The Wasps' Nest: Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theory, and "The Prioress’s Tale."

Description: Reads PrT and the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman "Hugo de
Lincolnia" as "conspiracy theory narratives," showing "how they use language and imagery to generate aesthetic emotions, especially fear and disgust," and revealing connections "both to other contemporary narratives and to a long tradition of antisemitic narrative that extends through 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' to the global conspiracy theories of the early twenty-first century.

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