Scribit Mater: Mary and the Language Arts in the Literature of Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Donavin, Georgiana.
Scribit Mater: Mary and the Language Arts in the Literature of Medieval England
- Published
- Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 315 pp.
- Description
- Investigates "constructions of Mary as Lady Rhetorica, 'magistra' for language studies, muse for poetry, and exemplar of perfected speech in a fallen world." Chapter 4, "Chaucer and Dame School," considers how ABC, PrT, and SNT "depict a hierarchy of Marian studies and the Virgin's intervention at every level of language learning," from elementary learning in dame schools to advanced study in the trivium.
- Chaucer Subjects
- ABC
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Second Nun and Her Tale