Chaucer's Prioress and the Blessed Virgin
- Author / Editor
- Frank, Hardy Long.
Chaucer's Prioress and the Blessed Virgin
- Published
- Chaucer Review 13 (1979): 346-62.
- Description
- Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims saw Madame Eglentyne as the Virgin's handmaiden, reflecting in her foibles and virtues the Queen of Heaven, whose "amor vincit omnia" (love conquers all). Support for the existence of the Marian echoes includes the use of "simple and coy" in a fourteenth-century "serventois" to the Virgin, the fact that eglantine is a common symbol for the Virgin, and the likelihood that St. Eloy would have been especially pleasing to the Virgin.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.