Art, Politics, or Religion? (Allusions to the Virgin Mary in The Canterbury Tales)

Author / Editor
Salas Chacón, Alvaro.

Title
Art, Politics, or Religion? (Allusions to the Virgin Mary in The Canterbury Tales)

Published
Káñina (Costa Rica) 17.2 (1993): 105-9.

Description
Surveys Chaucer's Marian allusions and critical commentary on them. Suggests that Chaucer wrote his Marian poetry (ABC, PrT, SNT, and allusions elsewhere) for political and aesthetic reasons, not out of religious devotion.

Chaucer Subjects
ABC
Prioress and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale