Nominalism in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale': A Preliminary Study

Author / Editor
Furr, Grover C.

Title
Nominalism in the 'Nun's Priest's Tale': A Preliminary Study

Published
Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 1995) pp. 135-46.

Description
Examines the theme of free will in NPT in light of the "nominalist-Augustinian debate of the fourteenth century," arguing that Chaucer's position reflects contemporary indeterminacy.

Alternative Title
Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and his Tale.