"Owles and Apes" in Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale," 3092.

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
"Owles and Apes" in Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale," 3092.

Published
Mediaeval Studies 27 (1965): 322-25.

Description
Aligns Chaucer's juxtaposition of owls and apes in NPT 7.3092 with the "moral obliquity" of the two animals in medieval art and sculpture, identifying origins in patristic commentary.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale