Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Mosaic; Jewish Student Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
13 (1992) 1-9
Keywords:
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
;
Antisemitism in literature
Abstract:
Examines Chaucer's possible reasons for using a demonized image of the Jew in "The Prioress's Tale, " more than a century after the expulsion of the Jews from England (1290). In the ideological representation of society in medieval England, the Jews, as in Chaucer's tale, represent foreign, malignant bodies in the Christian body politic. Argues that the tale's oedipal model for the relationship between Christianity and Judaism allows Chaucer to express religious anxieties and move through them to an archetypal resolution: the need for a "son" to kill his "father." Chaucer projects Christian anxieties onto his demonized Jews.
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