The Prioress and the Puys: A Study of the Cult of the Virgin and the Medieval Puys in Relation to Chaucer's Prioress and Her Tale

Author / Editor
Frank, Mary Hardy Long.

Title
The Prioress and the Puys: A Study of the Cult of the Virgin and the Medieval Puys in Relation to Chaucer's Prioress and Her Tale

Published
DAI 31.06 (1970): 2874-75A.

Description
Argues that the "emblematic Mary legend of the medieval 'puys'" is analogous to PrT, that the description of the Prioress in GP is "as Marian" as it is courtly, and that Chaucer had access to information about the "puys."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations