Credulity and the Rhetoric of Heterodoxy : From Averroes to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Grudin, Michaela Paasche.
Credulity and the Rhetoric of Heterodoxy : From Averroes to Chaucer
- Published
- Chaucer Review 35: 204-22, 2000.
- Description
- Investigates credulity as a feature of radical medieval thought (Marsilio of Padua, William of Ockham, John Wycliffe) and as depicted in Boccaccio and Chaucer. A creative artist rather than a philosopher or theologian, Chaucer uses various characters to open heterodoxy for discussion--e.g., the Wife of Bath, the friar of The SumT, and the Pardoner.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.