Chaucer’s "Lyf of Seinte Cecile": Theology and Politics.
- Author / Editor
- Aers, David.
Chaucer’s "Lyf of Seinte Cecile": Theology and Politics.
- Published
- Graham D. Caie and Michael D. C. Drout, eds. Transitional States: Change, Tradition, and Memory in Medieval Literature and Culture (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018), pp. 235-48.
- Description
- Treats the concerns of “faith, miracle, and conversion” in SNT, separating the tale from its "putative and absent narrator" and emphasizing its orthodoxy in the relation between faith and understanding, sexuality and marriage, and female deference to male sacerdotal authority, especially in the administration of baptism. Discusses Almachius as a "figure of the teleology of Wyclif's political vision and its ecclesiology” and Cecile's "last will and testament" as the "foundation of the Church's extensive temporalities."
- Contributor
- Caie, Graham D., ed.
Drout, Michael D. C., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Transitional States: Change, Tradition, and Memory in Medieval Literature and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale