The Mariology of the 'Prioress's Tale'

Author / Editor
Ferris, Sumner.

Title
The Mariology of the 'Prioress's Tale'

Published
American Benedictine Review 32 (1981): 232-54.

Description
Theologically, the Blessed Virgin is highly venerated, with "hyperdulia," but she is nevertheless only a means to the one mediator, Christ (1 Tim. 2.5), who is worshiped with "latria." This distinction, most unusual for a work of literature, is a major theme of PrT.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.