From Beowulf through the literature of the crusades and beyond, cannibals haunt the texts of medieval England. Cannibal Narratives attempts to explain their presence. It explores the relationship betw
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 contempo
Legendaries, or hagiographic manuscripts,have become increasingly well known in recent years through modern editions of individual texts and studies of particularmanuscripts.Meanwhile, greatly increas
