God's Patients: Suffering and the Divine in The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Bugbee, John Stephen.
God's Patients: Suffering and the Divine in The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- DAI A68.12 (2008): n.p.
- Description
- Applies the thought of Bernard of Clairvaux to issues of human action and subjection to God and law, as seen in ClT, MLT, KnT, FrT, and PhyT. Argues that a fuller understanding of Chaucer's "religious background" is essential to interpretation of his work.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Friar and His Tale
- Physician and His Tale