"To ben holden digne of reverence": The Tale-Telling Tactics of Chaucer's Prioress.
- Author / Editor
- Park, Hwanhee.
"To ben holden digne of reverence": The Tale-Telling Tactics of Chaucer's Prioress.
- Published
- Comitatus 46 (2015): 99–116.
- Description
- Invokes the medieval ideal (exemplified by "Ancrene Wisse") of establishing self-identity and authority by memorizing and performing texts. The Prioress does this by "over-identifying" with the clergeon. Briefly considering the anti-Semitism of the tale, argues that it may be read in the context of hagiographical tradition, where all "pagans" are usually denounced.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale