The Ascending Soul and the Virtue of Hope: The Spiritual Temper of Chaucer's Boece and Retracciouns
- Author / Editor
- Johnson, Ian.
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