Griselda's Abrahamic Test: Covenants and Clothing
- Author / Editor
- Hansen, Kristine.
Griselda's Abrahamic Test: Covenants and Clothing
- Published
- Literature and Belief 12 (1992): 53-70.
- Description
- Like Abraham, Griselda is justified or made perfect by works, evidenced by her willingness to sacrifice her children. Through three clothing changes, she becomes an emblem of salvation: the first change symbolizes baptism; the second, the trial of the apparently forsaken soul; and the third, the figurative death of the soul tested and found worthy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.