Chaucerian Attitudes towards Joy with Particular Consideration of the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Dean, Nancy.
Chaucerian Attitudes towards Joy with Particular Consideration of the 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- Medium Aevum 44 (1975): 1-13.
- Description
- Chaucer sees joy in Boethian terms as arising form what a man loves. Unlike the Man of Law and the Monk, the Nun's Priest affirms both worldly joy and heavenly bliss; he suggests that lost joy may be recovered if one, like Chauntecleer, actively uses one's perception and will.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.