as far as possible from the tales. It turned into anti-semitic propaganda as stories like these existed in Latin and Arabic before Old French. They blamed the Jews as the reason for the stories because they knew multiple languages.

History and definition of the genre

The fabliau is defined as a short narrative in (usually octosyllabic) verse, between 300 and 400 lines long, its content is often comic or satiric. In France, it flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries; in England, it was popular in the 14th century. Fabliaux are

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