Nuns

Author / Editor
Wallace, David.

Title
Nuns

Published
Brian Cummings and James Simpson, eds. Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 502-23.

Description
Wallace explores "degrees of enclosure" for nuns and surveys representations of nuns in medieval and Renaissance literature and art. Comments on Chaucer's depictions of the Prioress and the Second Nun: Chaucer "tells us much about one of his nuns and nothing about the other," an imbalance typical of the medieval representation of nuns.

Alternative Title
Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale