Nuns
- Author / Editor
- Wallace, David.
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