Griselda as Mary: Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" and Alanus de Rupe's Marian Exemplum.
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Anne.
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