The Philosophy of the Clerk of Oxford.
- Author / Editor
- Morse, J. Mitchell.
The Philosophy of the Clerk of Oxford.
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 19 (1958): 3-20.
- Description
- Describes the "intellectual milieu" of the Clerk in order to characterize him as "man of essentially humanistic temper, aware of so many complexities . . . that he found it difficult to rest in dogmatic assurance of anything." Traces the "movement toward individualism . . . [as it] grew out of the realist-nominalist controversy," summarizing its development from Berengar of Tours to John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, John Wyclif, and the "seeds of Protestantism," exploring its refractions in ClT, the characterizations of Griselda and Walter, and the Clerk's riposte to the Wife of Bath.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Wife of Bathe and Her Tale
Background and General Criticism