God's Patients: Suffering and the Divine in The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Bugbee, John Stephen.

Title
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