The Clerk as Secular Cleric and Griselda as Ecclesiological Type.
- Author / Editor
- Walsh, Lora.
The Clerk as Secular Cleric and Griselda as Ecclesiological Type.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 75–109.
- Description
- Interprets Griselda of ClT "as the late medieval English Church wedded to a secular power [Walter] that would radically dominate and divest her in the name of reform." Resists "domineering exegetical acts," using "literary and feminist biblical-analytical methods" instead, and situating the tale historically. Considers source material to address the tale’s combination of emotional intensity and allegorical valence, and reads the Clerk as a "secular cleric" who "is not worldly enough to profit from the very arrangement he upholds between serviceable clerics and royal power."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations