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1. Record Number: 44404 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Thinking about Chaucer’s Prioress in a Post-Roe America Source: Sundial , ( 2022): Available open access from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: https://medium.com/the-sundial-acmrs/thinking-about-chaucers-prioress-in-a-post-roe-america-a6bff8fb4ce5 Year of Publication: 2022.

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2. Record Number: 44516 Author(s): Solomon bar Simson, , and Sarah Ifft Decker Contributor(s): Title : The Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson Source: Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500-1500 CE. Sarah Ifft Decker.   Edited by Sarah Ifft Decker. Shlomo Eidelberg is the translator of Document 23 .   Routledge, 2022. Sundial , ( 2022):  Pages 139 - 139. Originally published in Eidelberg, Shlomo. The Jews and the Crusaders. University of Wisconsin Press, 1977; reprinted KTAV Publishing House, 1996. Year of Publication: 2022.

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3. Record Number: 45234 Author(s): Thomas of Monmouth, , and Tzafrir Barzilay, Contributor(s): Title : Murder Accusations and Religious Devotion Source: Jewish Everyday Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350: A Sourcebook.   Edited by Tzafrir Barzilay, Eyal Levinson, and Elisheva Baumgarten. The text is introduced by Tzafrir Barzilay and comes from Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, ed. and trans. Miri Rubin (London: Penguin Books, 2014), 16–17, 61–62. .  2022. Sundial , ( 2022):  Pages 126 - 128. The book is available open access: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_teamsdp/9/ Year of Publication: 2022.

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4. Record Number: 44486 Author(s): Williams Boyarin, Adrienne Contributor(s): Title : Jurnepin / Odard of Norwich Source: The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess. Adrienne Williams Boyarin.   Edited by Adrienne Williams Boyarin, translator of Appendix 2 Jurnepin / Odard of Norwich .   University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Sundial , ( 2022):  Pages 231 - 237. Available with a subscription from De Gruyter: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297508-013 Year of Publication: 2021.

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5. Record Number: 44756 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Llanthony Story #17: Jews mocked by boy's song Source: The Llanthony Stories: A Translation of the Narrationes aliquot fabulosae.   Edited by David R. Winter .   Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021. Sundial , ( 2022):  Pages 77 - 79. Year of Publication: 2021.

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6. Record Number: 44890 Author(s): Thomas of Monmouth, , Contributor(s): Title : Blood Libel: The Murder of William of Norwich Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.   Edited by Eugene Smelyansky .   University of Toronto Press, 2020. Sundial , ( 2022):  Pages 32 - 37. Year of Publication: 2020.

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7. Record Number: 29191 Author(s): Timmermann, Achim, Contributor(s): Title : Frau Venus, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Landshut Source: Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism.   Edited by Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg .   university of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Sundial , ( 2022):  Pages 183 - 202. Year of Publication: 2011.

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8. Record Number: 17748 Author(s): Dietl, Cora Contributor(s): Title : The Virgin, the Church, and the Heathens: The Innsbruck "Ludus de assumptione beatae Mariae virginis" [The author examines a German language play about the Assumption of the Virgin Mary found in a late 14th Century manuscript. The play presents Mary as mediator and emphasizes the malignity and deceit of the Jews who want to burn her body in revenge. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: European Medieval Drama , 10., ( 2006):  Pages 187 - 205. Year of Publication: 2006.

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9. Record Number: 11425 Author(s): Besserman, Lawrence Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer, Spain, and the Prioress's Antisemitism Source: Viator , 35., ( 2004):  Pages 329 - 353. Year of Publication: 2004.

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10. Record Number: 10948 Author(s): Dinshaw, Carolyn. Contributor(s): Title : Theater Makes History: Ritual Murder by Proxy in the "Mistere de la Sainte Hostie" [The author explores the connections between the antisemitic play in which a Christian servant murders her own child and several infanticides that occured around Metz and resulted in the mothers' guesome executions. Enders argues that host desecration is equated with infanticide, the horror of which was vivid in people's minds due to the recent crimes. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004):  Pages 991 - 1016. Year of Publication: 2004.

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11. Record Number: 11655 Author(s): Evans, Ruth. Contributor(s): Title : The Jew, the Host and the Virgin Martyr: Fantasies of the Sentient Body [The author takes a late thirteenth century account of host desecration in Paris and explicates it with reference to Middle English virgin martyr stories. Evans argues that cultural meanings of anti-semitism and the body inform these narratives and define the values that matter. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Medieval Virginities.   Edited by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih .   Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages series. University of Wales Press; University of Toronto Press, 2003. Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004):  Pages 167 - 186. Year of Publication: 2003.

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12. Record Number: 7832 Author(s): Nirenberg, David. Contributor(s): Title : Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain Source: American Historical Review , 107., 4 (October 2002):  Pages 1065 - 1093. Year of Publication: 2002.

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13. Record Number: 25678 Author(s): Eleazar ben Judah of Worms, Rabbi Contributor(s): Baskin, Judith, trans. Title : Eleazar ben Judah of Worms: Poetic Elegy 1 and 2 Source: Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period.   Edited by Lawrence Fine .   Princeton University Press, 2001. American Historical Review , 107., 4 (October 2002):  Pages 434 - 437. The elegy for his wife Dolce is reprinted as Document 1, pages 118-119 in Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500-1500 CE (Routledge, 2022) by Sarah Ifft Decker. Year of Publication: 2001.

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14. Record Number: 5467 Author(s): Baskin, Judith R. Contributor(s): Title : Dolce of Worms: Women Saints in Judaism [Dolce, along with her two daughters, was murdered during an antisemitic attack; her husband, Rabbi Eleazar, wrote both a prose (reproduced in the text with English translation) and verse memorial in which he praised her piety, her knowledge of Hebrew, her abilities at managing the household, her bravery in seeking help during the attack on their family, and her shrewd business skills that supported the family and allowed her husband to study the Torah; Dolce's saintliness consisted largely in her willingness to obey her husband and support him in his study of the divine word]. Source: Women Saints in World Religions.   Edited by Arvind Sharma .   State University of New York Press, 2000. American Historical Review , 107., 4 (October 2002):  Pages 39 - 69. Year of Publication: 2000.

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15. Record Number: 4722 Author(s): Dirks, Doris A. Contributor(s): Title : I Will Make the Inquisition Burn You and Your Sisters: The Role of Gender and Kinship in Accusations Against "Conversas" [The author examines two cases from Spain and a case from Mexico]. Source: Magistra , 5., 2 (Winter 1999):  Pages 29 - 57. Year of Publication: 1999.

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16. Record Number: 3965 Author(s): Rosenthal, Judith. Contributor(s): Title : Margery Kempe and Medieval Anti-Judaic Ideology Source: Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 409 - 420. Year of Publication: 1999.

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17. Record Number: 3963 Author(s): Stone, Carole. Contributor(s): Title : Anti-Semitism in the Miracle Tales of the Virgin Source: Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 364 - 374. Year of Publication: 1999.

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18. Record Number: 3826 Author(s): Shoemaker, Stephen J. Contributor(s): Title : Let Us Go and Burn Her Body : The Image of the Jews in the Early Dormition Traditions Source: Church History (Full Text via JSTOR) 68, 4 (Dec. 1999): 775-823. Link Info Year of Publication: 1999.

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19. Record Number: 4276 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Blood and Rosaries: Virginity, Violence, and Desire in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale" Source: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl .   St. Martin's Press, 1999.  Pages 181 - 198. Year of Publication: 1999.

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20. Record Number: 3964 Author(s): Gaynor, Stephanie. Contributor(s): Title : He Says, She Says: Subjectivity and the Discourse of the Other in the "Prioress's Portrait" and "Tale" Source: Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 375 - 390. Year of Publication: 1999.

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21. Record Number: 4156 Author(s): Einbinder, Susan L. Contributor(s): Title : Pucellina of Blois: Romantic Myths and Narrative Conventions Source: Jewish History , 12., 1 (Spring 1998):  Pages 29 - 46. Year of Publication: 1998.

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22. Record Number: 3095 Author(s): Johnson, Willis. Contributor(s): Title : The Myth of Jewish Male Menses Source: Journal of Medieval History , 24., 3 (September 1998):  Pages 273 - 295. Year of Publication: 1998.

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23. Record Number: 4157 Author(s): Despres, Denise L. Contributor(s): Title : Immaculate Flesh and the Social Body: Mary and the Jews Source: Jewish History , 12., 1 (Spring 1998):  Pages 47 - 69. Year of Publication: 1998.

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24. Record Number: 2840 Author(s): Dauven-van-Knippenberg, Carla. Contributor(s): Title : Maria Magdalena als Katalysator des Antijudaismus im 'Frankfurter Passionsspiel (1493).' Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik , ( 1995):  Pages 162 - 176. Year of Publication: 1995.

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25. Record Number: 4828 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer's "New Rachel" and the Theological Roots of Medieval Anti-Semitism [The author analyzes Chaucer's use of Rachel weeping in the Prioress's tale; the author is not able to say conclusively that Chaucer was satirizing antisemitism]. Source: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester , 77., 3 (Autumn 1995):  Pages 9 - 19. Year of Publication: 1995.

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26. Record Number: 11112 Author(s): Margolis, Nadia. Contributor(s): Title : Christine de Pizan and the Jews: Political and Poetic Implications Source: Politics, Gender, and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Margaret Brabant .   Westview Press, 1992. Florilegium , 11., ( 1992):  Pages 53 - 73. Year of Publication: 1992.

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27. Record Number: 9542 Author(s): Alexander, Philip S. Contributor(s): Title : Madame Eglentyne, Geoffrey Chaucer and the Problem of Medieval Anti-Semitism [The author argues that Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale is unquestionably antisemitic in nature. Although many literary critics have tried to defend Chaucer against antisemitism by pointing to his highly ironic portrayal of the tale’s narrator (the Prioress), Chaucer ultimately reflects the biases of his contemporaries. Title note supplied by Feminae]. Source: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester , 74., 1 (Spring 1992):  Pages 109 - 120. Year of Publication: 1992.

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28. Record Number: 9461 Author(s): Orsten, Elisabeth M. Contributor(s): Title : Madame Eglentyne in Her Day and in Ours: Anti-Semitism in "The Prioress’s Tale" and a Modern Parallel [The author assesses twentieth-century scholarship on Chaucer’s Prioress and the controversy over whether the character is anti-Semitic (she tells a story about a little boy killed by Jews). Although one might see the Prioress as anti-Semitic according to our modern post-Holocaust perspective, it is ultimately unknowable whether Chaucer shared her views. The author finds a modern parallel to “The Prioress’s Tale” in the story of a shrine in Rinn, Austria (dedicated to a boy supposedly killed by Jewish merchants in 1462); its cult following endured through the late twentieth-century. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Florilegium , 11., ( 1992):  Pages 82 - 100. Year of Publication: 1992.

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29. Record Number: 11796 Author(s): Spector, Stephen. Contributor(s): Title : Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress’s Tale [The author examines the intersection of love and hate in the Prioress’s Tale, focusing on the Prioress’s anti-Semitism. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World.   Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector .   State University of New York Press, 1991. Florilegium , 11., ( 1992):  Pages 211 - 228. Year of Publication: 1991.

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30. Record Number: 30912 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Synagoga Source: Florilegium , 11., ( 1992): Year of Publication:

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31. Record Number: 30931 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Synagoga Source: Florilegium , 11., ( 1992): Year of Publication:

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32. Record Number: 36961 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Scenes of Host Desecration Source: Florilegium , 11., ( 1992): Year of Publication:

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33. Record Number: 43615 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Jewish blacksmith's wife forging nails for the crucifixion Source: Florilegium , 11., ( 1992): Year of Publication:

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