"The Prioress’s Tale" and Vernacular Devotion.
- Author / Editor
- Pitard, Derrick.
"The Prioress’s Tale" and Vernacular Devotion.
- Published
- Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 323-45.
- Description
- Argues that the "modes of religious expression" in PrT are "vernacular" insofar as they are simultaneously canny and naïve. Using romance discourse to express religious orthodoxy, the Prioress challenges patriarchal "Latinate institutions," evident by contrast with Richard Rolle's works, but she reduplicates the violence of both romance and orthodoxy. Compares the Prioress's challenge to those of the Wife of Bath, and contrasts her violent orthodoxy with that of the Second Nun.
- Alternative Title
- Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale