"The pitous pite deserveth": Justice, Violence, and Pity in the "Prioress's Tale" and "The Jew and the Pagan.'
- Author / Editor
- Hines, Jessica.
"The pitous pite deserveth": Justice, Violence, and Pity in the "Prioress's Tale" and "The Jew and the Pagan.'
- Published
- Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2022): 130-47.
- Description
- Compares the "structures of feeling" in PrT and Gower's "Tale of the Jew and the Pagan," particularly their interrelations of pity, violence, justice, antisemitism, and affective response. Suggests that the two authors reworked their versions at the same time, and that, while Gower's version is attentive "to how pity might ease the abuses of a law and justice gone awry," Chaucer had greater "distrust of pity."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations