Images, Texts, and Exegetics in Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale

Author / Editor
Little, Katherine C.

Title
Images, Texts, and Exegetics in Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36 (2006): 103-34.

Description
Little reevaluates the Christian iconography in SNT in light of the Wycliffite debate over the use of images and their potential to become idolatry. Despite the importance of visual images, SNT shows a shift toward words and texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.