The Object of Miraculous Song in "The Prioress's Tale."

Published: Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. Medieval Women and Their Objects (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 56-68.

Description: Focuses on materiality and objects in PrT, specifically the corpse, the antiphon, and the "greyn," and their "transcendence of the miraculous object." Claims that these objects illustrate Carolyn Bynum's notion of material objects involved in miraculous change. Concludes with a look at the "greyn" and the Tale itself, both of which are purposefully inserted into a mouth (the clergeon's/the Prioress's), and considers connections between the object and the oral.