'Potentia Absoluta' and the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Stepsis, Robert.
'Potentia Absoluta' and the 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 10 (1975): 129-46.
- Description
- Bradwardine's concept of God's "potentia absoluta" serves to reconcile the literal and allegorical meanings of Walter in ClT. Griselda must accept Walter's actions, though she cannot comprehend them. This parallels man's relationship to God, but, the envoy shows, it should not serve as a pattern for earthly marriages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.