The Extremities of the Faith: Section VIII of the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Kooper, Erik.

Title
The Extremities of the Faith: Section VIII of the Canterbury Tales

Published
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 209-18.

Description
"Stone" is an allegorical figure of Christ in both the Old and New Testaments, illuminating the three kinds of stones in SNT and CYT: "those of the pagans, of the alchemists and of the Christians." Chaucer presents the "extremities of human faith" embodied in the Nun and the Yeoman.

Alternative Title
Wyf Ther Was.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and her Tale.
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.