What to Call Petrarch's Griselda
- Author / Editor
- Morse, Charlotte Cook.
What to Call Petrarch's Griselda
- Published
- Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods, eds. The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992), pp. 263-303.
- Description
- Manuscript rubrics variously identify the genre of Petrarch's story as "mythologia," "fabula," and "historia" (perhaps the least constricting choice). Some rubrics emphasize Griselda's wifely virtues of obedience and fidelity, while others single out womanly patience and steadfastness (often associated with martyrdom rather than conjugal subordination).
- Alternative Title
- The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.