The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer's Prioress's Tale

by Heather Blurton and Hannah Johnson

Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer's Prioress's Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale's antisemitism and its "Chaucerianism"--its fitness or aptness as part of the Chaucerian canon--are significant topics of reflection for modern readers, who worry about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047213034X
• ISBN13: 9780472130344
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"