Chaucer's Discourse of Mariology: Gaining the Right to Speak
- Author / Editor
- Collette, Carolyn P.
Chaucer's Discourse of Mariology: Gaining the Right to Speak
- Published
- Robert R. Edwards, ed. Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 127-47.
- Description
- Collette examines the tradition of Mariology in relation to PrPT and SNPT. In their "Prologues," the Prioress and the Second Nun invoke the Virgin "as a figure of virtuous female power and speech." In their "Tales," however, women and children die struggling to be heard. Religious truth inspires the faithful to speak, but it cannot assure that they will be accepted or heard.
- Alternative Title
- Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.