The "Moralite" of the Nun’s Priest’s Sermon.
- Author / Editor
- Donovan, Mortimer J.
The "Moralite" of the Nun’s Priest’s Sermon.
- Published
- JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 52 (1953): 498–508.
- Description
- In light of patristic and iconographical traditions of scriptural commentary, bestiaries, and sermons, reads the rooster "Chauntecleer as any holy man" and the fox "Daun Russell as heretic and devil." Argues that NPT is a "sermon on alertness to moral obligation" and a response to the Monk's view of irrevocable fortune.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Monk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations