The Prioress and the Second Nun

Author / Editor
Lewis, Katherine J.

Title
The Prioress and the Second Nun

Published
Stephen H. Rigby, ed., with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis. Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 94-113.

Description
Places the Prioress and the Second Nun in the context of late medieval female monasticism, contrasting the roles of female agency and the "representations of female holiness" of the Prioress and the Second Nun.

Alternative Title
Historians on Chaucer: The "General Prologue" to the "Canterbury Tales."

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale