The Sources of Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale'

Author / Editor
Reames, Sherry L.

Title
The Sources of Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale'

Published
Modern Philology 76 (1978): 111-35.

Description
Combining Bosio's edition of the "Passio S. Caeciliae" and the "Legenda Aurea" accounts for all but eight discountable details of SNT and,independently, for the English analogues. Chaucer adapts rather than translates.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.