Chaucer, Auctoritas, and the Problem of Pain

Author / Editor
Hanks, D. Thomas, Jr.

Title
Chaucer, Auctoritas, and the Problem of Pain

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 219-36.

Description
Surveys Chaucer's concern with the coexistence of a beneficent God and the suffering of humans in KnT, MLT, ClT, and FranT. Chaucer often poses this issue by alluding to Job.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale.
Clerk and His Tale.
Franklin and His Tale.