Devotion and Defilement: The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Corporeal Hagiographics of Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Rambuss, Richard.
Devotion and Defilement: The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Corporeal Hagiographics of Chaucer's 'Prioress's Tale'
- Published
- Lori Hope Lefkovitz, ed. Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997), pp. 75-99.
- Description
- The Prioress's identification with the little clergeon of PrT and her elisions of history indicate a "desire for transcendence" rather than sentimentality. The presence of bodily violence and prurience in PrT accords well with some of the "corporealities" traditionally attributed to the Virgin Mary, situating the "Tale" firmly in the genre of miracles of the Virgin.
- Contributor
- Lefkovitz, Lori Hope,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.