The Prioress and the Second Nun
- Author / Editor
- Lewis, Katherine J.
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