Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' as Political Paradox
- Author / Editor
- Grudin, Michaela Paasche.
Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' as Political Paradox
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 63-92.
- Description
- Dante's advocacy of absolute rule as necessary for a peaceful state ("De monarchia") was opposed by other fourteenth-century Italian political theorists who saw such a state as tyrannical. Boccaccio's treatment of Griselda in "Decameron" implicitly examines absolutism; Petrarch's "De insigni obedientia et fide uxoris" extends the political dimension of the tale. ClT dramatizes without resolving this political controversy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.