Seinte Cecile and Cristes Owene Knyghtes: Violence, Resignation, and Resistance in the Second Nun's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Damon, John.
Seinte Cecile and Cristes Owene Knyghtes: Violence, Resignation, and Resistance in the Second Nun's Tale
- Published
- Sally McKee, ed. Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999) pp. 41-56.
- Description
- Martial imagery in SNT presents Cecilia as a "kind of general in a spiritual army of the steadfast faithful." Seen in light of Th and Mel, SNT idealizes "non-violent resistance, not passive resignation, to abuses of power."
- Alternative Title
- Crossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Tale of Sir Thopas.
- Tale of Melibee.