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