Responses to Ockhamist Theology in the Poetry of the 'Pearl'-Poet, Langland, and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- McNamara, John Francis.
Responses to Ockhamist Theology in the Poetry of the 'Pearl'-Poet, Langland, and Chaucer
- Published
- DAI 29.09 (1969): 3148-49A.
- Description
- In TC and "several important" tales of CT, Chaucer expresses more "confidence in human nature" than do Langland or the "Pearl"-poet in their works. He indicates the human need for divine Providence and assurance that "God will not use his absolute power to overrule or contradict the covenant with man." In this way, he steers a middle ground between the "extremes of the Ockhamists and the Augustinians" in the late-medieval nominalist-realist debate.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Canterbury Tales--General