'Mulier est hominis confusio': Chaucer's Antipopular 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
'Mulier est hominis confusio': Chaucer's Antipopular 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Mosaic 17:1 (1984): 1-8.
- Description
- Slightly reviesd in Sheila Delany, Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of Ideology (University of Manchester Press, 1990), pp. 141-50.
- NPT presents the wife subordinate to the husband, an emblem with parallels in natural, social, and cosmic hierarchies. Inconsistent with his sources and with attitudes toward marriage in "popular" literature, Chaucer approves the hierarchical and dualistic Pauline-Augustinian ideology.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.