Chaucer's Prioress and 'Amor Vincit Omnia'

Author / Editor
Finlayson, John.

Title
Chaucer's Prioress and 'Amor Vincit Omnia'

Published
Studia Neophilologica 60 (1988): 171-74.

Description
The unmistakably sexual connotations of the source passages in "The Romance of the Rose" for the table manners and motto of Chaucer's Prioress help confirm "the impression that there 'is' a deliberate tension directed between the ideal of spiritual courtesy and the Prioress's penchant for the manifestations of secular and social courtesy"--a penchant that implies "supressed sexual instincts."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.