Saints, Nuns, and Speech in the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Sherman, Gail Berkeley.
Saints, Nuns, and Speech in the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Timea Szell, eds. Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991), pp. 136-60.
- Description
- By allowing the pilgrims no comment on the hagiographic discourse of the faceless, feminine "Second Nonne," and by allowing the Prioress to identify with the Word and the bearer of the Word, CT interrogates the doctrines on which it rests: "auctoritee" and experience, speech and writing, salvific word and redemptive act.
- Alternative Title
- Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.