"Heere of myn house perpetuelly a cherche:" Imagining Perpetuity in Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Hurley, Gina Marie.
"Heere of myn house perpetuelly a cherche:" Imagining Perpetuity in Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale.
- Published
- Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton, eds. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2023), pp. 163-82.
- Description
- Identifies the limited "temporal scale" in SNT, arguing that its closing lines (550–53) "leap . . . into eternity" and "create the impression of the endurance of Cecilia’s church, a miracle not unlike that of her prolonged life." Contrasts Theseus’s ephemeral arena in KnT with Cecilia's sanctified, ongoing church, and argues that Chaucer adapts his source material in SNT to represent the perpetuity of Christian fellowship.
- Alternative Title
- New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Knight and His Tale