Apprehending the Divine and Choosing to Believe: Voluntarist Free Will in Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale'

Author / Editor
Robertson, Elizabeth.

Title
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