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.
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