Chaucer and Everyday Death : The Clerk's Tale, Burial, and the Subject of Poverty
- Author / Editor
- Lavezzo, Kathy.
Chaucer and Everyday Death : The Clerk's Tale, Burial, and the Subject of Poverty
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23: 255-87, 2001.
- Description
- Griselda reflects the "ordinary peasant woman" of Chaucer's age. Her anxieties about the burials of her children are similar to concerns found in guild records; both ClT and the guild records indicate late-medieval interconnections among poverty, child abandonment, and infanticide.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.