Presumption and Despair: The Figure of Bernard in Middle English Imaginative Literature.

Author / Editor
Horn, Adam Tyler.

Title
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