Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and the Iconography of Saint Cecilia

Author / Editor
Kolve, V. A.

Title
Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale and the Iconography of Saint Cecilia

Published
Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 137-74.

Description
Although Chaucer was not a "painterly" poet, he was, like most other serious writers of the time, an iconographic poet. Examines a number of medieval images appropriate to Chaucer's life of Saint Cecilia and includes twenty reproductions in black and white.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.