Poverty, Property, and the Self in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Chaucer's Griselda.
- Author / Editor
- Bullon-Fernandez, Marıa.
Poverty, Property, and the Self in the Late Middle Ages: The Case of Chaucer's Griselda.
- Published
- Mediaevalia 35 (2014): 193-226.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer raises questions in ClT about relations between poverty and the nature of the self, gauging the extent to which Griselda's agency, selflessness, and lack of "things" are factors in Walter's "inhuman" treatment of her, and asking whether her "lack of property is a part of the reason she is so readily turned into an allegorical virtue" by Petrarch and others.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations