The 'Clerk's Tale' of Man Tempting God

Author / Editor
Condren, Edward I.

Title
The 'Clerk's Tale' of Man Tempting God

Published
Criticism 26 (1984): 99-114.

Description
Presents evidence of a coherently conceived allegory in ClT: God is to Man as Perfection is to Imperfection, a hierarchy based not on rank but on virtue. Thus God is to Man as Griselda is to Walter.