"To hange upon a tree": A Didactic Catharsis of Crucifixion through Moral Subversion in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Ponce, Timothy.
"To hange upon a tree": A Didactic Catharsis of Crucifixion through Moral Subversion in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale."
- Published
- Sigma Tau Delta Review 13 (2016): 25-31.
- Description
- Traces the Jewish and Christian understandings of crucifixion, arguing that the image underlies the "didactic nature" of PhyT where "repeated images of injustice" are "placed in dialogue with the symbolism of the cross," reminding the reader of "divine grace."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale