Mary's Swollen Womb: What It Looks Like to Overcome Tyranny in the Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Klassen, Norm.
Mary's Swollen Womb: What It Looks Like to Overcome Tyranny in the Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.
- Published
- Renascence 68.2 (2016): 77-92.
- Description
- Explores the contrast between the Marian womb imagery of SNP (7.43-49) and the deflated bladder of Almachius's power in SNT (7.437-41), finding in the contrast "a vision of the Church that attests freedom and obedience, as well as Chaucer's embracing the task of the Christian artist who would imitate a creator who generates dependence without control."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale