The Blessed Virgin and the Two Coronations of Griselda

Author / Editor
Wimsatt, James I.

Title
The Blessed Virgin and the Two Coronations of Griselda

Published
Mediaevalia 6 (1980): 187-207.

Description
The parallel between Griselda and Mary, from preelection and marriage through maternal suffering to final coronation, is integral and pervasive in ClT. Mary embodies the canonical myth of the life of the Christian soul from baptism to heaven; Griselda humanizes the myth, but retains mythic force.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.