Trust and Chaucer's Prioress: The Secrets of Her Success

Author / Editor
Greenwood, Maria K.

Title
Trust and Chaucer's Prioress: The Secrets of Her Success

Published
Andre Lascombes, ed. Identites et differences (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, no. 17, 1992), pp. 27-43.

Description
The Prioress's duplicity has been constructed. Appealing to one or both of the codes by which we define her as a nun or a lady, she manages to invite excuses and build trust whenever mistrust is possible.

Contributor
Lascombes, Andre, ed.

Alternative Title
Identites et Differences.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.