The 'Speculum Stultorum' and the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Author / Editor
Mann, Jill.

Title
The 'Speculum Stultorum' and the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 9 (1975): 262-82.

Description
In its narrative strategy and its theme of the comic irrelevance of the abstractions on which men try to base their lives, Nigel of Longchamps' medieval Latin beast fable, "Speculum Stultorum," provided a suggestive model for Chaucer's NPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.