The Sources of Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Reames, Sherry L.
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.