How Old is Chaucer's Clerk?
- Author / Editor
- Ussery, Huling E.
How Old is Chaucer's Clerk?
- Published
- Tulane Studies in English 15 (1967): 1-18.
- Description
- Argues that the Clerk is characterized as a "middle-aged scholar and professional logician," distinct among the other clerks of CT for his age (probably "more than thirty and less than fifty years of age") and wisdom, and unique in the GP as a representative of the medieval "intelligentsia." The character may have been inspired by the ideal of a clerk presented in Vincent of Beauvais's "De Eruditione Filiorum."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales