The Prioress's 'Oratio ad Mariam' and Medieval Prayer Composition
- Author / Editor
- Spence, Timothy L.
The Prioress's 'Oratio ad Mariam' and Medieval Prayer Composition
- Published
- Scott D. Troyan, ed. Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 63-90.
- Description
- The Prioress's prayer to Mary shares characteristics with the "genre of prayer known as 'pura oratio'." Spence identifies features of this genre in rhetorical tradition, shows where they are evident in PrP, and suggests that they extend into PrT, undercutting claims that the Tale is satiric.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.