A Neo-Revisionist Look at Chaucer's Nuns

Author / Editor
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.

Title
A Neo-Revisionist Look at Chaucer's Nuns

Published
Chaucer Review 31 (1996): 115-32.

Description
Based on medieval religious rules and regulations, particularly those related to orders of nuns, the medieval norm of nuns is revealed in Chaucer's depiction of the Prioress, a depiction that is not negative.

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