'My Dames Loore' in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Sleeth, Charles R.

Title
'My Dames Loore' in 'The Canterbury Tales'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 89 (1988): 174-84.

Description
The invocations of a mother's advice in WBP, PardT, and MkT, in contrast to the wisdom of "Oure Lady" invoked by the two nuns in CT, become an ambiguous source of authority not in themselves but because of the actions they appear to justify.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.