The Exemplary Griselda
- Author / Editor
- Morse, Charlotte C.
The Exemplary Griselda
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 51-86.
- Description
- Discusses fourteenth-century responses to the Griselda story--notably those of Petrarch, Philippe de Mezieres, and the "Menagier de Paris--focusing on their consistent understanding of the tale as an exemplary (not allegorical) account of heroic patience and on the nature of the demands exempla place on the reader.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.