My Child and My Life: Sacrificial Obligation and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Montano, Gary Scott.

Title
My Child and My Life: Sacrificial Obligation and Chaucer

Published
DAI A72.08 (2012): n.p.

Description
Arguing for the prominence of the Biblical account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac in medieval culture, the author observes the presence of children as sacrificial figures in MkT, PrT, PhyT, MLT, and ClT, and notes the rewards of faith in those sacrificial circumstances.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations