The Canaanite Woman, the Second Nun, and St. Cecilia
Chaucer’s little-noticed allusion to the story of the Canaanite woman in his Prologue to the Second Nun’s Tale brings several aspects of his poem into focus. What he gains by alluding to this account can be seen in a comparison of its source text, Matt. 15:21-28, to the very different version of thi...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2013
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2013, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 203-222 |
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