Children and Violence in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Baron, F. Xavier.
Children and Violence in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Journal of Psychohistory 7.1 (1979): 77-103.
- Description
- Because Chaucer's "children's tales" deal with "extreme violence which the children suffer as innocent victims," these narratives "tend toward despair." Yet, they provoke compassion and thereby suggest that compassion is the proper response to innocent suffering. Baron discusses MLT, PrT, ClT, PhyT, Mel, and the Hugolino story in MkT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Clerk and His tale
- Physician and His Tale
- Tale of Melibee
- Monk and His Tale