Griselda as Mary: Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" and Alanus de Rupe's Marian Exemplum.

Author / Editor
Astell, Anne.

Title
Griselda as Mary: Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" and Alanus de Rupe's Marian Exemplum.

Published
Sharon M. Rowley, ed. Writers, Editors, and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts (Cham: Macmillan Palgrave, 2021), pp. 43-78.

Description
Argues that allusions to Mary in ClT "disturb a reception of Grisildis as Stoic heroine and Chistian saint." Claims Griselda is a "failed Pietá and that the tale is "caught between two worlds, critical of its own sacrificial gestures."

Alternative Title
Writers, Editors, and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations