The Minster and the Privy: Rereading the Prioress's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Lavezzo, Kathy.
The Minster and the Privy: Rereading the Prioress's Tale.
- Published
- PMLA 126 (2011): 363-82.
- Description
- Reads PrT and its concern with usury in light of medieval architectural construction and its dependence upon financing through lending, arguing that although the Tale demonizes Jewish lenders and exalts Christians through associations with, respectively, the latrine and the minster, it undermines these associations by presenting contaminating continuities between the two locales, obliquely critiquing notions of pure Christian identity. Reads the "greyn" as Mary's "loan" to the clergeon, describes Chaucer's familiarity with lending practices and architecture, comments on his alterations of his sources for PrT, and includes five b&w figures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Chaucer's Life
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations