Performing Feminine Sanctity in Late Medieval England: Parish Guilds, Saints' Plays, and the Second Nun's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Sanok, Catherine.
Performing Feminine Sanctity in Late Medieval England: Parish Guilds, Saints' Plays, and the Second Nun's Tale
- Published
- JMEMSt 32 : 269-303, 2002.
- Description
- Sanok assesses the urban performances of virgin martyr and Marian plays and the "exemplarity" of female saints' legends, examining how authorities sought to contain or appropriate the subversive potential of female piety. Considers SNT and how the Nun reenacts Cecilia's performance of female preaching; SNP and SNT comment "on the status of women within late medieval religious practice."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.