The Ascending Soul and the Virtue of Hope: The Spiritual Temper of Chaucer's Boece and Retracciouns

Author / Editor
Johnson, Ian.

Title
The Ascending Soul and the Virtue of Hope: The Spiritual Temper of Chaucer's Boece and Retracciouns

Published
English Studies 88 (2007): 245-61.

Description
Johnson examines Chaucer's attitudes about and representations of the "workings of the soul in stirring itself towards God," comparing Bo to its Boethian original in light of late fourteenth-century pastoral instruction and tracing similar sentiments in Ret.

Chaucer Subjects
Boece
Chaucer's Retraction