The Unhidden Piety of Chaucer's 'Seint Cecilie'

Author / Editor
Grossi, Joseph L., Jr.

Title
The Unhidden Piety of Chaucer's 'Seint Cecilie'

Published
Chaucer Review 36 (2002): 298-309.

Description
Grossi compares details of SNT with Jacob of Voragine's version in the "Golden Legend" and the Franciscan "abridgement" of the life of Saint Cecilia, arguing that Chaucer "sought to widen the intellectual divide between Roman paganism and primitive Christianity" that he found in his sources.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations