The Clerk's Tale: Hagiography and the Problematics of Lay Sanctity
- Author / Editor
- McKinley, Kathryn L.
The Clerk's Tale: Hagiography and the Problematics of Lay Sanctity
- Published
- Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 90-111.
- Description
- The concept of piety was complex and problematic during the Middle Ages, and Chaucer's refusal to align himself with one side or the other in ClT is distressing. Griselda is neither a paradigm for lay sanctity nor an ironic or satiric character.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.