Chaucer's Monk Illuminated: Zenobia as Role Model

Author / Editor
Lindeboom, B. W.

Title
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