Chaucer's Clergeon, or Towards Holiness in The Prioress's Tale

Author / Editor
Czarnowus, Anna.

Title
Chaucer's Clergeon, or Towards Holiness in The Prioress's Tale

Published
SAP 43 (2007): 251-64.

Description
In PrT, uncanniness and the eventual wounding of the clergeon are necessary to render the clergeon holy and Christlike. His experience is close to that represented in miracle plays exploring the Slaughter of the Innocents.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale