Feminist Theology and 'The Second Nun's Tale': Or, St. Cecilia Laughs at the Judge

Author / Editor
Hagen, Susan K.

Title
Feminist Theology and 'The Second Nun's Tale': Or, St. Cecilia Laughs at the Judge

Published
Medieval Perspectives 4-5 (1989-90): 42-52.

Description
Recent feminist study of the early Christian movement reveals that women enjoyed a high degree of authority and autonomy. Read against this background, SNT exhibits the changed status of women by the late fourteenth century.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.