Article: Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prioress's Tale

Article: Performing the Prioress: "conscience" and responsibility ...
Texas Studies in Literature and Language;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ...The Prioress's Tale poses a very confusing and uncomfortable ... depicted in the tale--Chaucer, the Prioress, the Christian culture that produced ... To meet the complex challenge of the Prioress's Tale, some recent scholars approach ...

Article: Chaucer's clergeon, or towards holiness in The Prioress's ...
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... contemporary criticism, Chaucer's Prioress's tale focuses on the figure of an ... in the two tales. At the end of The Prioress's tale the boy achieves holiness ... cabinet decorated with scenes from The Prioress's tale, now in the Ashmolean Museum ...

Article: Dominican sisters elect prioress
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  August 4, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Albert, O.P. The nun was elected prioress of the Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary ... pleased (Mary Albert) has been elected prioress. The community of the Dominicans is ... Mother Albert said this week. The prioress may serve two consecutive three-year ...

Dictionary definition: prioress
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church;      289 words ...prioress. In general, the prioress fulfils the same function as the prior in the corresponding male ... restricted to the superiors of certain houses of nuns , the title of prioress is also used in certain Religious Institutes of women who are ...

Article: Incoming prioress at St. Benedict strives to work as a ...
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  June 29, 2008 ;     572 words ... ... who believes her six-year term as prioress will be an opportunity to give back to ... at the monastery picked DeMatteis as prioress in April following an almost year-long ... community very well," said outgoing prioress Sister Michelle Farabaugh, who will ...

Article: New prioress is elected.
Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK);  April 14, 2007 ;     475 words ... ... Christine Ereiser has been elected the next prioress of St. Joseph Monastery, 2200 S. Lewis ... Barbara Austin, who completes her term as prioress on July 1. In a Benedictine community, the prioress is spiritual leader and also president ...

Article: Lumiansky's paradox: ethics, aesthetics and Chaucer's ...
College Literature;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Of all of Chaucer's poems, "The Prioress's Tale" is perhaps the most prominent ... Semitism (the Blood Libel), but "The Prioress's Tale" also has been praised in the ... world. What might it mean to treat the Prioress's anti-Semitism with "respect ...