A Scotian Reading of the Man of Law’s Tale and the Clerk’s Tale.
- Author / Editor
- Hirsh, John C.
A Scotian Reading of the Man of Law’s Tale and the Clerk’s Tale.
- Published
- Modern Language Review 116 (2021): 1-14.
- Description
- Attends to "evident Scotian implications” of MLT and ClT without arguing that Chaucer read or was directly influenced by the works of John Duns Scotus. Focuses on the nature of God and voluntarism in the tales, arguing that "where Custance had to contend only with the will of God, Griselda has to confront a barely intelligible, if unmistakable, reminder of God himself" in Walter.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Man of Law and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale