Norm Klassen

Norm Klassen is an associate professor of English at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Ont. He is the author of Chaucer on Love, Knowledge, and Sight, and is currently completing a translation of Peter Martyr's In Epistolam S. Pauli Apostoli ad Romanos... Commentarii 10-16, a 16th century commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans.

Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.

Norm Klassen

Articles by Norm Klassen

  • A Pilgrimage of Conversation

    April, Geoffrey Chaucer assured us, is the surest month. Convivium contributor Norm Klassen argues the poet's immortal Canterbury Tales are a timely way to be with the Word on the Christian journey

    In the prologue to The Second Nun's Tale, the last story in which a woman speaks in The Canterbury Tales, the nun invokes Mary's help to tell her story with words taken from the climactic canto of Dante's Paradiso The capacity to see both unity and Chaucer's humorous interest in all the details of o...

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