Chaucer and St. Kenelm

Author / Editor
Boenig, Robert.

Title
Chaucer and St. Kenelm

Published
Neophilologus 84: 157-64, 2000.

Description
As found in "The Golden Legend" ("Legende Aurea") and the "South English Legendary," the life of St. Kenelm offers striking parallels with both PrT and NPT, in which Chaucer refers to it (7.3110-21). Kenelm was murdered at age seven, perhaps the reason Chaucer used that age.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.