Sources and Analogues: the "Invocacio ad Mariam" in Chaucer's "The Second Nun's Prologue."

Author / Editor
Castro, Enrico.

Title
Sources and Analogues: the "Invocacio ad Mariam" in Chaucer's "The Second Nun's Prologue."

Published
Parole rubate/Purloined Letters 18 (2018): 139-61. Open access journal, at http://www.parole rubate.unipr.it/issues.php (accessed January 24, 2022).

Description
Identifies and comments on various parallels between lines 36 and 74 of the "Invocacio ad Mariam" in SNP and St. Bernard’s praise of Mary in Dante’s "Paradiso," XXXIII, treating portions of it as "free translation," although perhaps influenced by other works of Marian theology and literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations