Presumption and Despair: The Figure of Bernard in Middle English Imaginative Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Horn, Adam Tyler.
Presumption and Despair: The Figure of Bernard in Middle English Imaginative Literature.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International A83.02 (E)
Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 2021
- Description
- Argues for using "a Bernardine anagogical lens" to assess theological depth in CT and "Piers Plowman," and traces allusions and references to Bernard of Clairvaux in "Piers," ParsT, and the "Prick of Conscience.."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Parson and His Tale
Canterbury Tales--General