Chaucer and the Politics of Penance

Author / Editor
Wilcox, Karl G.

Title
Chaucer and the Politics of Penance

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 66.11 (2005): n.p.

Description
Explores fusions of penitential values and Wycliffite ideals in Chaucer's LGW, ParsT, and Ret, arguing that he used them to counter Richard II's use of exempla to suppress political dissent.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Parson and His Tale
Chaucer's Retraction