Convents, Courts and Colleges: The Prioress and the Second Nun
- Author / Editor
- Holloway, Julia Bolton.
Convents, Courts and Colleges: The Prioress and the Second Nun
- Published
- Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 198-215.
- Description
- Discusses Chaucer's women and their relations with pilgrimage and learning. The Wife of Bath rebels against her husband's book of wicked wives. The Prioress tells of a boy's eschewing his primer in order to sing a hymn he does not understand from the Antiphoner. The Second Nun is well read in the Golden Legend and in Dante's use of St. Bernard.
- Alternative Title
- Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.