The Concept of Order in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Heninger, S. K., Jr.
The Concept of Order in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale.
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 56 (1957): 382-95.
- Description
- Analyzes the "repeated allusions to the Scholastic concept of a divinely-ordained universal order" in ClT. Shows that such allusions are generally not in Chaucer's sources, and that they help to characterize the Clerk as a "serious scholar and devout cleric" who, in response to the Wife of Bath's unorthodoxy, expounds "philosophical and religious views prevalent in fourteenth century England."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations