The Critique of 'Clergie' in Ricardian Literature
- Author / Editor
- Goodman, Thomas A.
The Critique of 'Clergie' in Ricardian Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1990): 1607A.
- Description
- Religious learning as an aid for salvation is a theme running through late-fourteenth-century works including CT, Piers Plowman, and Wycliffite writing. Chaucer satirizes scholastic studies in WBT, FrT, and SumT. Although not involved in the realism-nominalism controversy, he treats contemporary ecclesiastical interests.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.