The Culpability of Chaucer's Prioress

Author / Editor
Maleski, Mary A.

Title
The Culpability of Chaucer's Prioress

Published
Chaucer Yearbook 05 (1998): 41-60.

Description
Debates whether Chaucer's Prioress is childlike or simply childish, and questions why she is on a pilgrimage. Also discusses the extent of Chaucer's understanding of medieval religious women.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.