The Unhidden Piety of Chaucer's 'Seint Cecilie'
- Author / Editor
- Grossi, Joseph L., Jr.
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