Chaucer's Prioress and 'Amor Vincit Omnia'
- Author / Editor
- Finlayson, John.
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.