The Appearance of Pity, Love, and Reverence: Chaucer's Prioress and Her Tale

Author / Editor
Beach, Charles Franklyn.

Title
The Appearance of Pity, Love, and Reverence: Chaucer's Prioress and Her Tale

Published
Anthony Giffone and Marlene San Miguel Groner, eds. Proceedings, Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, 2003, Farmingdale State University of New York (Farmingdale, N.Y.: Farmingdale State University, 2004), pp. 5-10.

Description
Comments on various assessments of the Prioress as a figure of false appearances and suggests that Chaucer undercuts PrT through the reference to Hugh of Lincoln, which ironically evokes the twelfth-century Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, who defended Jews.

Contributor
Giffone, Anthony, ed.
Groner, Marlene San Miguel, ed.

Alternative Title
Proceedings, Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, 2003, Farmingdale State University of New York.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale