Madame Eglentyne: The Telling of the Beads
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Madame Eglentyne: The Telling of the Beads
- Published
- Donka Minkova and Theresa Tinkle, eds. Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly (Frankfurt and New York : Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 205-33.
- Description
- The description of the Prioress's rosary exemplifies Chaucer's word play and his literary engagement with other writers, particularly Jean de Meun and Ovid. Fleming compares the Prioress's rosary with rosaries in medieval art and assesses the significance of her name, Madame Eglentyne, in romance and sacred romance alike.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.