God's patients : Chaucer, agency, and the nature of laws / John Bugbee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bugbee, John, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153--Criticism and interpretation.

Bernard.

Religion in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (501 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]

Summary:

God's Patients explores some of Chaucer's most challenging poems, providing a powerful new way of thinking about the transition between the Middle Ages and modernity.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Preface: A Foretaste of Two Philosophical Themes

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Passion as Theme and Method

PART 1: Action and Passion

Chapter One: Concerned with Constancy: The Clerk's and Man of Law's Tales

Chapter Two: Hermeneutical Interlude: Chaucer, Gadamer, Boethius

Chapter three: Bernard and Chaucer on Action and Passion

Appendix to Chapter Three: Bernard, C. W. Bynum, and the Deep Roots of Paradox

Chapter Four: Holy Anomaly: The Second Nun's Tale and Active Sanctity

PART 2: Will and Law

Chapter Five: Law Gone Wrong: The Franklin's and Physician's Tales

Chapter Six: Bernard, Chaucer, and Life with the Law

Chapter Seven: Conclusion: The Union of the Themes and Its Implications

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-268-10447-6

OCLC:

1061863545