Let Me 'Telle Yow What I Mente': The 'Glossa Ordinaria' and the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Author / Editor
Kordecki, Lesley.

Title
Let Me 'Telle Yow What I Mente': The 'Glossa Ordinaria' and the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Published
Exemplaria 4 (1992): 365-85.

Description
"Glossa Ordinaria" and NPT demonstrate the medieval tendency to accompany a base text with another, more interpretive one, generating further discourse, discouraging closure, and resulting in compound, sometimes conflicting, interpretations or glosses. In particular, both texts exploit the hermeneutic possibilities of animals.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.