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Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prioress's Tale

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer, Geoffrey
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Prioress's Tale

Introduction:

The Prioress's Tale is an example of a very popular type of pious legend
known as a "miracle of the virgin." They were quite commonly found in sermon
handbooks, and varied in degrees of subtlety and popular appeal, though they
always involved the miraculous interventior of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the
life of some person (usually a sinner who had a special devotion to Our Lady.
In some of the more extreme examples the most perfunctory sort of devotion,
practiced by an otherwise thoroughly abandoned sinner, resulted ...

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