Chaucer's General Prologue: 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Brumble, H. David,III.

Title
Chaucer's General Prologue: 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Explicator 37.1 (1978): 45.

Description
As Meyer Schapiro has noted, the mousetrap, associated with the Prioress in GP 145, is used by Augustine as a symbol of the cross that entraps the devil with the bait of Christ's flesh. The same allegory is found in Peter Lombard's "Sentences."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales,