Chaucer's Two Nuns
- Author / Editor
- Dutton, Marsha L.
Chaucer's Two Nuns
- Published
- Benjamin Thompson, ed. Monasteries and Society in Medieval Britain: Proceedings of the 1994 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies, no. 6 (Stamford: Watkins, 1999), pp. 296-311.
- Description
- Dutton reads the Prioress and the Second Nun as paired opposites: one childish, the other adult. In PrPT, the Creator is subordinated to his creatures, who seem "unaware of the effects of the Incarnation." SNPT reasserts the proper order, in which Christians exercise chastity and charity while rejecting wrath and vengeance.
- Contributor
- Thompson, Benjamin, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Monasteries and Society in Medieval Britain: Proceedings of the 1994 Harlaxton Symposium.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Second Nun and Her Tale.