The Prioress' Dogs and Benedictine Discipline.
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
The Prioress' Dogs and Benedictine Discipline.
- Published
- Modern Philology 54 (1956): 1-6.
- Description
- Clarifies the implications of the Prioress keeping dogs as pets and feeding them meat (GP 1.146ff.), explaining that such behavior bends or breaks at least four "Benedictine strictures"--ones that restrict pet owning (especially dogs) and eating meat, and others that mandate proper charity, or pity, and performance of duties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale