Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer."

Author / Editor
Waldman, Peter.

Title
Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer."

Published
Ph.D. dissertation (Florida State University, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.03(E). Fully accessible at https://repository.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:927778 (accessed February 2, 2025).

Physical Description
viii, 137 pp.

Description
Explores confession and intention ("entente") in selected works of Chaucer: TC, LGWP, FrT, PardT, ParsT, and Ret, reading them as a "progression" that "resembles the evolution of penitential concepts across the whole of the medieval period." Assesses several confessional works in Middle English that precede Chaucer, and considers the presence of pagan figures in his "confessional" works.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Friar and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Parson and His Tale
Chaucer's Retraction