Statues, Bodies, and Souls: St. Cecilia and Some Medieval Attitudes toward Ancient Rome.
- Author / Editor
- Benson, C. David.
Statues, Bodies, and Souls: St. Cecilia and Some Medieval Attitudes toward Ancient Rome.
- Published
- Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. Medieval Women and Their Objects (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 267-87.
- Description
- Discusses SNT as Chaucer's only hagiographical work to evaluate the medieval perception of art. Contrasts the medieval devotion to earthly relics in relation to St. Cecilia's desire to shed the physical and enter the spiritual, while paralleling her life with artistic representations of her cult.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Women and Their Objects
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale