The Prioress's Fair Forehead
- Author / Editor
- Farrell, Thomas J.
The Prioress's Fair Forehead
- Published
- ChauR 42 (2007): 211-21.
- Description
- Looking beyond the OED's definition of "span"--a length of roughly nine inches--to a range of medieval senses of the word suggests that the width of the Prioress's forehead "offers no meaningful foothold for objecting to her."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale