God's Patients: Chaucer, Agency, and the Nature of Laws.
- Author / Editor
- Bugbee, John.
God's Patients: Chaucer, Agency, and the Nature of Laws.
- Published
- Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- ix, 477 pp.
- Description
- Explores the concept of "cooperative" or "conjoint" agency in Chaucer's works to examine ideas "about the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity." Examines the notion of passivity in the works of Chaucer and Bernard of Clairvaux, as well as themes of "action-and-passion" and "will-and-law" in CT. Focuses on MLT, ClT, NPT, KnT, SNT, FranT, PhyT, and PrT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Knight and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Physician and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale