Natura Lachrymosa
- Author / Editor
- Fleming, John V.
Natura Lachrymosa
- Published
- Susan J. Ridyard and Robert G. Benson, eds. Man and Nature in the Middle Ages (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South Press, 1995), pp. 19-35.
- Description
- Assesses various medieval depictions of personified Nature lamenting human error, and comments on Prioress's "ambiguous" motto (Amor Vincit Omnia) as a "reordering" of the phrase "omnia vincit Amor" from Virgil's tenth "Eclogue," modified by the characterization of Courtesie from the "Roman de la Rose."
- Alternative Title
- Man and Nature in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations