The Prioress' Brooch and St. Leonard.
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
The Prioress' Brooch and St. Leonard.
- Published
- English Studies 44 (1963): 350-53.
- Description
- Observes that as the patron saint of prisoners St. Leonard was associated iconographically with chains and fetters, and contends that this deepens the irony and ambiguity of the motto on the brooch of the Prioress in GP 1.162, where "vincit" carries the "suggestion of bondage."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale