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Author Bugbee, John, 1970- author.

Title God's patients : Chaucer, agency, and the nature of laws / John Bugbee
Published Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 477 pages)
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 LawChapter 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 03, 2019)
Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast
Subject POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018052958
ISBN 0268104476
9780268104481
0268104484
9780268104474