Chaucer's Monk Illuminated: Zenobia as Role Model
- Author / Editor
- Lindeboom, B. W.
Chaucer's Monk Illuminated: Zenobia as Role Model
- Published
- Neophilologus 92 (2008): 339-50.
- Description
- Chaucer may have intended to end MkT with the account of Zenobia--extracting it from LGW--and thereby to offer her narrative as a remedy for the Monk's "spiritual condition," which develops over the course of CT. Lindeboom compares Chaucer's version of Zenobia to that in Boccaccio's "De Claris Mulieribus."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Legend of Good Women