Weeping for the Virtuous Wife: Laymen, Affective Piety and Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Sidhu, Nicole Nolan.

Title
Weeping for the Virtuous Wife: Laymen, Affective Piety and Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'

Published
Maryanne Kowaleski and P. J. P. Goldberg, eds. Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 177-208.

Description
Adaptations of its sources shape ClT in ways that encourage male, bourgeois readers to imagine themselves as Griselda's protectors. Infused with a sense of moral and patriarchal responsibility and driven by religious devotion, such readers also respond to the assertion of male authority in the Tale.

Contributor
Kowaleski, Maryanne, ed.
Goldberg, P. J. P., ed

Alternative Title
Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing and Household in Medieval England.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations