Sacred and profane in Chaucer and late medieval literature : essays in honour of John V. Fleming /

Sacred and profane in Chaucer and late medieval literature : essays in honour of John V. Fleming / edited by Robert Epstein and William Robins.

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"Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience. Using late Medieval English literature, including some of Chaucer's writings, these essay...

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Other Authors: Fleming, John V., Robins, William Randolph, 1964-, Epstein, Robert W. (Robert William), 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Middle English
Latin
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Holy, The, in literature.
Secularism in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Sacred, the Profane, and Late Medieval Literature
  • 2. Bathsheba in the Eye of the Beholder: Artistic Depiction from the Late Middle Ages to Rembrandt / David Lyle Jeffrey
  • 3. Susanna's Voice / Lynn Staley
  • 4. The Ends of Love: (Meta)physical Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Jamie Fumo
  • 5. Troilus in the Gutter / William Robins
  • 6. The Suicide of the Legend of Good Woman / Julia Marvin
  • 7. Sacred Commerce: Chaucer's Friar and the Spirit of Money / Robert Epstein
  • 8. How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer's Pardoner / Martin Camargo
  • 9. The Radical, Yet Orthodox, Margery Kempe / Fiona Tolhurst
  • 10. Preface to Fleming / Steven Justice
  • 11. Bibliography of the Scholarship of John V Fleming.

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