Iconic Representations of Chaucer's Two Nuns and Their Tales from Manuscript to Print

Author / Editor
Hilmo, Maidie.

Title
Iconic Representations of Chaucer's Two Nuns and Their Tales from Manuscript to Print

Published
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, ed. Women and the Divine in Literature Before 1700: Essays in Memory of Margot Louis (Victoria, Canada: ELS Editions, 2009), pp. 107-35.

Description
Hilmo explores the iconography of representations of the Prioress, the Second Nun, and their Tales, commenting on the Ellesmere illustrations of the tellers, the Vernon manuscript depiction of PrT, two manuscript depictions of Saint Cecilia, and the woodcuts used by Caxton, de Worde, and Pynson. 9 b&w figs.

Contributor
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, ed.

Alternative Title
Women and the Divine in Literature Before 1700: Essays in Memory of Margot Louis.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale