Alphabets and Rosary Beads in Chaucer's An ABC
- Author / Editor
- Donavin, Georgiana.
Alphabets and Rosary Beads in Chaucer's An ABC
- Published
- Scott D. Troyan, ed. Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 25-39.
- Description
- ABC is intended not for private prayer but as a pedagogical "English-teaching" text. The poem's manuscript illuminations, visual imagery, and rosary-like structure reinforce the general medieval association of the Virgin with the education of youth (also reflected in PrT).
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook.
- Chaucer Subjects
- ABC.
- Prioress and Her Tale.