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	The Prioress' Prologue and Tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The General Prologue names the prioress as Madam Eglentyne, and describes her impeccable table manners and soft-hearted ways.
		Her story is of a child martyr killed by Jews, a common theme in Medieval Christianity, and much later criticism focuses on the tale's anti-Semitism.
		The Prioress' French accent is a sign of social climbing, yet her speech is modeled after the Stratford-at-Bow school, not the more desirable Parisian French.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Prioress'_Prologue_and_Tale (832 words)

	Prioress
		Prioress was Reel's eighth foal, a bay filly with a star and ring on her near hind pastern, who grew to 16 hands.
		Prioress was described as "sick and leg weary" since her arrival in England.
		Robertson notes "Prioress salvaged something for the stable by finishing among the first three in the famous triple dead heat for the 1857 Cesarewitch Handicap, and then - her American background of heat racing obviously standing her in good stead - winning the run-off." She went unplaced in her final start of the year.
	www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/Prioress.html (777 words)

	Insights for the Ages
		This leader, called appropriately abbot or abbess or prioress, is a spiritual parent, a catalyst for the spiritual and psychological growth of the individual monastic, not a border guard or a warden.
		Abbots or prioresses of Benedictine monasteries, then, parents and supervisors and officials and bishops everywhere who set out to live a Benedictine spirituality, are to keep clearly in mind their own weak souls and dark minds and fragile hearts when they touch the souls and minds and hearts of others.
		The prioress and abbot are to listen carefully for what they could not find in their own souls and to make a decision only when they can come to peace with it, weighing both the community's concerns and the heart they have for carrying the decision through.
	www.eriebenedictines.org /Pages/INSPIRATION/insights.html (8236 words)

	Houses of Cluniac nuns: Priory of Arthington \| British History Online
		The then prioress, and all her successors, were enjoined that in sales of wool, and all other important business matters, the convent, or at least the greater and wiser portion, should be consulted.
		The prioress, and three or four more mature and discreet nuns, were to have an account of all the goods drawn up, showing also the debts and credit of the house, and the corrodies, pensions, and other obligations in full, under the convent seal, for the archbishop.
		The house was surrendered by Elizabeth Hall, the prioress, and the convent on 26 November 1540.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=36256 (2379 words)

	Chaucer: The Prioress' Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Clearly rhetorical apostrophes are, as it were, a habit with the Prioress, and the modesty pose involves consideration of herself as a child.
		The Prioress' sensitivity for the mother and the little martyr resembles her attitude towards mice and dogs in the General Prologue.
		As for the anti-semitism, the Prioress is a product of her age (the ignorant side), and most Chaucerians seem to lament uncomfortably that Chaucer is also a product of his age on this count (e.g., Benson 16) and simply admit that anti-semitism was a way of life in the Middle Ages.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/chaucer/PrT.html (527 words)

	The Prioress's Tale
		The Prioress would have been the head nun of a priory or assistant head over an abbey, perhaps like Bolton Abbey, a twelfth-century building that was destroyed in the dissolution of the monasteries.
		The Prioress is accompanied by a small group, another nun and a priest at least, since it would be unfitting for her to travel alone.
		The Prioress may have been traveling for devotional purposes, and it is not excluded that she was traveling as a form of penance.
	www.unc.edu /depts/chaucer/zatta/prioress.html (924 words)

	Houses of Benedictine nuns: Priory of Arden \| British History Online
		When the prioress kept her chamber she was to have a nun with her, not always the same, but now one, then another, so that no sinister suspicion of levity could arise.
		She further alleged that the prioress received all the revenues of the house, and spent them as she liked, without the knowledge of her sisters, and that sometimes she had the common seal in her private keeping, and sometimes gave it to Elizabeth Darell, so that she could use it at pleasure.
		She stated that when the prioress took office, the house was in a sound financial condition and that they only owed 15 marks, and that the prioress had received many sums of money, by gift and in alms.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=36225 (2374 words)

	Prioress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The term prioress is properly applied only to a superioress in a convent which has the papal approbation and whose members make solemn profession, that is, to convents which belong to an order in the strict sense of the word.
		In some places, however, it is customary to apply the title of prioress also to a superioress in a convent which has only the episcopal approbation and whose members do not make solemn profession.
		If the prioress is the first superior, her authority over the convent is similar to that of a conventual prior over his priory; if the first superior is an abbess, the office of the prioress is similar to that of a claustral prior in an abbey.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/prioress.html (182 words)

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		The portrait of the Prioress that Chaucer presents to his audience shows off all the strengths that would have made the Prioress a perfect candidate for her job.
		Though Chaucer does not explicitly suggest that the Prioress is an adulteress, he ironically refers to the seductive power of the world in which she participates.
		The Prioress must be read outside the context of her portrait in the General Prologue since the General Prologue was written after the Prioress's Tale.
	library.northwestu.edu /Chaucer/subject.php?id=669 (1856 words)

	Wickham. "Chaucer’s Prioress: Simple and Conscientious, or Shallow and Counterfeit?"
		This naming of the Prioress by Chaucer after a flower symbolizing Mary is ironic, because Mary is the embodiment of love and mercy, two things that the Prioress shows, in her tale, that she does not value overmuch.
		The Prioress is using this pathetic language to elicit sympathy from her audience and, at the same time, generate admiration and reverence for herself among her listeners.
		Also useful when comparing the Prioress to other female characters of Chaucer’s is the language that the Prioress uses in her prologue and tale; it is vastly different from that used by the Wife of Bath, and this was specifically designed by Chaucer to highlight the difference between the two women.
	www.luminarium.org /medlit/wickham.htm (5306 words)

	White ladies of Worcester by Florence L. Barclay
		The Prioress laid her folded hands upon the missal and as she repeated the ancient sixth-century prayer, in all its depth of inspired simplicity, her voice thrilled with deep emotion, for she was giving to another that which had meant infinitely much to her own inner life.
		This the Prioress was herself proceeding to do, when something impelled her to turn her eyes to the angle of wall laid bare by the closing of the door.
		The Prioress marked the squaring of the broad shoulders; the height, greater than her own, though she was more than common tall; the stride, beneath the folds of the long robe; and she knit her level brows, for well she knew with whom she had to deal.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /etexts/E000159.htm (20500 words)

	ABA. American Monastic Newsletter. 29:2, June 1999. Dan Ward OSB
		At times a monastic may come to experience the abbot or prioress as a spiritual father or mother who is concerned about the life journey of the monastic.
		The sister, trusting the prioress, tells the prioress her story, which includes a number of alcohol-related accidents and two DUIs (driving under the influence).
		While the prioress knew there was a drinking problem, she did not know any of the facts.
	www.osb.org /aba/news/992902/dward.html (1452 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer. Convents, Courts and Colleges: The Prioress and the Second Nun
		The Prioress creates a persona for herself, a Jungian animus of herself, in the illiterate hymn-chanting school boy who is terrifyingly and tauntingly caught, trapped and victimized in mirroring ghettoized worlds.
		The Prioress with her cultivated and counterfeited appearance and falsely assumed stance of innocence and childishness reminds one of the whited sepulchre back in Belgium that is Kurtz' Intended in Heart of Darkness.
		The Prioress, obedient to and manipulative of male hierarchy, carried out revenge, in fantasy, against both a male child and a religious, racial minority in her tale, strangely identifying herself with both and displacing her internalized/projected anger upon them most unjustly and with the greatest sadism.
	www.florin.ms /Prioress.html (7001 words)

	Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prioress' Tale"
		She is "a Nonne, a Prioress" whose smile was "symple and coy." In our day we consider "coy" to be a somewhat derogatory term, but in Chaucer's time it just meant "quiet." Her Christian name is Eglentyne (in Chaucer's day, an upper-class name), and she was obviously born into money.
		But it appears a little unseemly that this "symple" Prioress, who has such a sentimental attachment to the least of God's creatures that she begins to cry when she sees a mouse caught in a trap, should so graphically describe the murder of a child and unabashedly relish the torture of Jews.
		He doesn't specifically say, but it seems very likely that the Prioress' compassion for animals as well as her gold necklace are thrown into the story precisely to draw attention to this paradox.
	www.storybites.com /Chaucerprioress.htm (767 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
		The Prioress is described as a gentlewoman, possessing all the etiquette/manners and sympathetic trappings of nobility.
		The Prioress is like the widow, namely incapable of caring for her own son (faith), protecting him from the evils of the world, and helpless, because she lacks the knowledge and rationality to do so.
		I think it was the Prioress who impressed me that she ate so carefully that "in her cup, no morsel could be seen." It was memorable twice, that it was so descriptive of the woman, and that it was unusual enough to remark on it.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/05/26/182708.php (2710 words)

	Chaucer's Prioress - from Gloriana's Court
		Most nuns certainly were pious, but, as the Prioress shows quite accurately, this well could be a sentimental religiosity rather than a solid grasp of the truths of the faith.
		For the Prioress to devote the rest of her prologue to sentimental praises of the Queen of Heaven is understandable...
		The Prioress refers to a small boy "in Asia", but her later references to Hugh of Lincoln make him appear to be the basis of her tale.
	www.gloriana.nu /prioress.html (1775 words)

	prioress
		By both definition and the narrator's declaration we know that she is a nun, and by her title the head of a priory of nuns, though it does not say whether that the priory was subordinate to an abbey, which it conceivably could have been.
		Regardless, Cynthia C. Werthamer suggests that Chaucer's description of the Prioress is hardly befitting a nun, and instead suggests that the Prioress is a woman on whom Chaucer had a romantic crush.
		This notion, that the portrait of the Prioress was in some ways like a courtly romance heroine, has been challenged: "Joseph A. Dane challenges in "The Prioress and Her Romanzen," the claims of critics that "Eglentyne" is a typical romance name are the result of mistranslation.
	www.nowhereatall.net /prioress.html (4501 words)

	Hinchingbrooke Nunnery
		She was apparently the daughter of the King of Scotland, and fled to a relation who was the prioress of a nunnery at Eltisley, four miles from St Neots.
		The cause of the disturbance is not noted, but the perpetrators covered a number of the town tradesmen: 2 glovers, a fisher, a smith, a barber, a butcher, a sawyer, a fuller, 4 herdsmen, a tailor, a skinner, a cordwainer, a chapman, a hosier, and a chandler.
		The Prioress occasionally during the 14th century leased St Peters and its chapel of St Michael to the rector of St Andrews; this leading to the confusion over tithes which the prioress successfully challenged.
	www.hinchhouse.org.uk /wylton/wylton2.html (904 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		According to the prioress, "In these last days, especially since June 15, one of us was always with her, 24 hours a day.
		The death of the witness of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin caused great sadness among the religious of her community, the prioress said.
		The prioress sees as possible an eventual flowering of vocations to the contemplative life, motivated by the example of the little shepherdess' life.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=66702 (533 words)

	The Prioress of Kirklees
		Certainly if Margaret de Savile was the prioress in waiting in 1347, she may well have had a hand in the death of the outlaw through her influence upon the prioress of Kirklees and through her kith, one time Sheriff and all-round dastardly person, Sir John de Eland.
		The prioress is regarded in the "Geste" as being "of Robin Hood's kin".
		However, others have shown that if Elizabeth entered the priory as a novice in 1344 at the age of 12 then she would have been too young perhaps to be prioress in 1347 at the age of 15.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Lane/8771/priory.html (3251 words)

	Essential Chaucer: The Prioress and Her Tale
		Demonstrates the influence of the late-medieval Cult of the Virgin Mary on the portrait and tale of Chaucer's Prioress, citing parallels between contemporary Marian epitomes and Madame Eglantine, especially her name and oaths, the courtliness of her sketch, and the anti-Semitism of her tale.
		Identifies two echoes of Matthew's gospel in Chaucer sketch of the Prioress--a detail of her table manners and her feeding of her dogs--and argues that the details are richly ambivalent rather than satiric.
		Documents Chaucer's familiarity with the life of nuns by assessing the portraits, prologues, and tales, of the Prioress and Second Nun in light of the liturgy and practice of convent life, noting parallels between the Rule of St. Benedict and the nuns' behavior, and identifying details that derive from their daily cycle of prayer.
	colfa.utsa.edu /chaucer/ec28-17.html (708 words)

	Priory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Priories can be divided into two types, regular and alien.
		A regular priory is a monastery governed by a prior or prioress, usually Catholic.
		An alien priory is a priory which is dependent on a foreign mother house, and an alien priory cell was a residence of two or three monks dependent on a foreign mother house but sent to exploit a distant estate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prioress (826 words)

	Canterbury Tales Essays - The Prioress of The Canterbury Tales
		The Prioress, a Nun, is no exception, but Chaucer does not directly say how she represents the four vows but rather it is what he does not say that leads people to believe the Prioress is the exact opposite of what is expected of a nun that has committed herself to the four vows.
		The Prioress spoke of owning little dogs, which is strictly prohibited in a convent, and treating them exceptionally well and being extremely attached to them.
		The vow of obedience, in reference to the Prioress, is probably the most odd vow of the four, since he never mentions it.
	www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=15607 (814 words)

	Chaucer--Prioress
		Summary: The prioress says she must recite her tale with the voice of a twelve-year-old to attain the purity of its message.
		Chaucer's GP has gone to unusual lengths to complicate her character, avoiding the typical short descriptive tags like "the best prioress in the world" or "a prioress so good that..." which would effectively forestall questioning her goodness.
		The GP specifically calls to mind not her piety, but rather her dining habits, her treatment of pets, her expenditure of the priory's funds on luxuries, her attention to non-religious pastimes, and her sentimentality.
	faculty.goucher.edu /eng330/chaucerprioress.htm (770 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - Prioress of Convent Remembers Sister Lucia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The bodies of especially holy persons are often the subject of review after their deaths, and Sister Lucia is destined for a major canonization.
		Meanwhile a prioress at the convent told Zenit News Service that Sister Lucia was so humble and unassuming that when she first got there the prioress did not even know who Lucia was.
		She became much more intimate, from this point of view,' something that 'occurs with all sisters who are dying, because -- none has yet died suddenly -- when they are in need of our help, there is a greater bond.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3972 (1515 words)

	LondonTown.com \| Prioress Road Guide \| Prioress Road London, SE27, England, UK \| London Streets by Street \| London ...
		Prioress Road is located in the borough of Lambeth
		The nearest underground station to Prioress Road is 'Balham ' which is about 62 minutes to the North West.
		Serves an array of thin crust and deep pan American style pizzas, as well as pasta dishes and salads.
	www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/prioress_road_d73.html (215 words)

	Prioress
		Sister Clarissa Goeckner was elected as the 13th prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of the Monastery of St. Gertrude, Cottonwood, ID, on April 6, 2005.
		Clarissa when asked how she felt to be chosen prioress by her Benedictine sisters, “but I am challenged and empowered, loved and supported by each member of this community.”
		Clarissa was born on May 22, 1939, in Keuterville, ID, to Andrew and Ann Enneking Goeckner.
	www.stgertrudes.org /Membership/prioress.htm (477 words)

	M. Mary John Mananzan, OSB installed Prioress
		Mary John Mananzan, OSB was installed as Prioress by M. Irene Dabalus, OSB, Prioress General, at St. Scholastica’s Chapel, Manila on April 22.
		The installation took place during the Eucharistic Celebration presided by Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales, D.D. All the superiors and sisters from different stations came to show their loyalty and support to the new prioress.
		As you start your God-given work and life as Prioress today, we pray for the continuing guidance and grace of God – a grace that builds on nature.
	www.ssc.edu.ph /news_smj_installation.htm (494 words)

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