Bloomfield sees it as a story of how "virtu can outwit fortune." He studies the epic conventions mocked in the tale, and concludes that the tale is about "the subversion of wisdom and its reinstatement."īrody, Saul Nathaniel. 70-82.īloomfield, classifying the NPT as a beast-fable claims it into the category of "wisdom literature"-literature dedicated to teach the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the past.
Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979. "The Wisdom of the Nun's Priest's Tale."Ĭhaucerian Problems and Perspectives.
From La Bibliothèque Nationale de France.īloomfield, Morton W. Barthélemy l'Anglais, Le Livre des Propriétés des choses.įrance, L'Anjou, Maine XVe s.
Annotated Bibliography for Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale."Ĭoq.
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