"To hange upon a tree": A Didactic Catharsis of Crucifixion through Moral Subversion in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale."

Author / Editor
Ponce, Timothy.

Title
"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