Apprehending the Divine and Choosing to Believe: Voluntarist Free Will in Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Elizabeth.
Apprehending the Divine and Choosing to Believe: Voluntarist Free Will in Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale'
- Published
- ChauR 46.1-2 (2011): 111-30.
- Description
- Argues that SNT "presents conversion as a choice stimulated by apprehension of the divine through the senses" and accomplished by a "radical act of the will, unmediated and immediate, if not inherently violent."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale