Griselda's Heritage : Ancestral Family Bonds in The Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Hernández Pérez, M. Beatriz.
Griselda's Heritage : Ancestral Family Bonds in The Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Manuel Brito and Juan Ignacio Oliva, eds. Traditions and Innovations Commemorating Forty Years of English Studies at ULL (1963-2003) (Tenerife, Canary Islands: RCEI, 2004), pp. 273-80.
- Description
- Hernández Pérez explores kinship models implicit in the cultural "memory" of ClT, especially those that involve Walter's sister and the sending of children to a relative's household. Griselda's class and deference may reflect vestiges of marriage to a "strange woman" of the wild. Told by the Clerk, the Tale may also include vestiges of the Church's opposition to endogamy.
- Contributor
- Brito, Manuel, ed.
- Oliva, Juan Ignacio, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.