Chaucer’s Monk illuminated: Zenobia as role model

What this article discusses is the unique presence of Zenobia among all the Monk’s male case histories, in order to find that she may have been inserted by Chaucer as being remedially relevant to the Monk’s spiritual condition and to suggest that it may have been her story on which Chaucer intended...

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Published inNeophilologus Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 339 - 350
Main Author Lindeboom, B. W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2008
Springer Nature B.V
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Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400)
Comparative Linguistics
Comparative Literature
Historical Linguistics
Interruptions
Linguistics
Middle English
Philology
Social Sciences
Syntax
Monk's Tale
Zenobia
Prologue of the Nun's Priest's Tale
[Geoffrey] Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
Prologue of the Monk's tale
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Summary:What this article discusses is the unique presence of Zenobia among all the Monk’s male case histories, in order to find that she may have been inserted by Chaucer as being remedially relevant to the Monk’s spiritual condition and to suggest that it may have been her story on which Chaucer intended the Monk’s Tale to end before the interruptions by the Knight and the Host.
ISSN:0028-2677
1572-8668
DOI:10.1007/s11061-007-9054-z