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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Release : 1915
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Download or read book The Nun's Priest's Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 1915. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Release : 1996
Genre : Tales, Medieval
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Download or read book The Nun's Priest's Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents one of the best-known stories in the Canterbury Tales in an accessible form for A-Level and college students. It uses the Riverside text and includes The Nun's Priest's Prologue, tale and epilogue as well as the Portrait of the Prioress from the General Prologue.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Release : 1927
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Book Synopsis Canterbury Tales by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer. This book was released on 1927. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred William Pollard
Release : 2015-08-22
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Download or read book The Nun's Priest's Tale written by Alfred William Pollard. This book was released on 2015-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Fiona J. Griffiths
Release : 2018-02-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Nuns' Priests' Tales by : Fiona J. Griffiths
Download or read book Nuns' Priests' Tales written by Fiona J. Griffiths. This book was released on 2018-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Middle Ages, female monasteries relied on priests to provide for their spiritual care, chiefly to celebrate Mass in their chapels but also to hear the confessions of their nuns and give last rites to their sick and dying. These men were essential to the flourishing of female monasticism during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, yet they rarely appear in scholarly accounts of the period. Medieval sources are hardly more forthcoming. Although medieval churchmen consistently acknowledged the necessity of male spiritual supervision in female monasteries, they also warned against the dangers to men of association with women. Nuns' Priests' Tales investigates gendered spiritual hierarchies from the perspective of nuns' priests—ordained men (often local monks) who served the spiritual needs of monastic women. Celibacy, misogyny, and the presumption of men's withdrawal from women within the religious life have often been seen as markers of male spirituality during the period of church reform. Yet, as Fiona J. Griffiths illustrates, men's support and care for religious women could be central to male spirituality and pious practice. Nuns' priests frequently turned to women for prayer and intercession, viewing women's prayers as superior to their own, since they were the prayers of Christ's "brides." Casting nuns as the brides of Christ and adopting for themselves the role of paranymphus (bridesman, or friend of the bridegroom), these men constructed a triangular spiritual relationship in which service to nuns was part of their dedication to Christ. Focusing on men's spiritual ideas about women and their spiritual service to them, Nuns' Priests' Tales reveals a clerical counter-discourse in which spiritual care for women was depicted as a holy service and an act of devotion and obedience to Christ.
