Sin and Sensibility : The Conscience of Chaucer's Prioress
- Author / Editor
- Eaton, R. D.
Sin and Sensibility : The Conscience of Chaucer's Prioress
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 104 (2005): 495-513.
- Description
- In the GP description of the Prioress, the term conscience, used to describe her mental operations, implies not sensibility or emotion but rather prescription or governance. The Prioress's display is not emotive but mimetic, and her performance reveals the moral disengagement of the court and cloister.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.