Sacred and Secular in the Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Edden, Valerie.
Sacred and Secular in the Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 369-76.
- Description
- ClT is not a religious tale but a secular story "enriched with religious symbolism." The Tale is domestic, not cosmic; there is no indication of a providential plan; God is only evoked twice; Griselda's vow is clearly secular; and her reward is reconciliation with her family, not sainthood or recompense in heaven.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.