Article: Globalizing Jewish communities: mapping a Jewish geography in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales.(Critical essay)(Essay)

This essay moves beyond the bounds of the Prioress's Tale to explore alternative texts that Chaucer probably never consulted yet whose histories resonate in Chaucer's work in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales. These tales of Fragment VII (specifically, the Prioress's Tale, Sir Thopas, and the two tragedies, "De Petro Rege Ispannie" and "De Rege Antiocho illustri," from the Monk's Tale) form what I term the Jewish history cluster. (1)Reexamining the significance of Jewish presence in O/other texts than those traditionally documented as sources or analogues that "Chaucer knew" or was "acquainted with"--as W. F. Bryan and Germaine Dempster write--this essay reconsiders ...

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