'The Sclaundre of Walter': The 'Clerk's Tale' and the Problem of Hermeneutics
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
'The Sclaundre of Walter': The 'Clerk's Tale' and the Problem of Hermeneutics
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), pp. 15-41.
- Description
- ClT maintains a tension between the interpretive multiplicity of Boccaccio's version of the tale and the hermeneutic closure of Petrarch's translation. The integration of Griselda and her heirs into hereditary hierarchy may help explain the fifteenth-century popularity of ClT.
- Alternative Title
- Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.