Law And Religion In Chaucers England
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Author | : Henry Ansgar Kelly |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2023-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000948544 |
These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of the Canterbury Tales. Topics include the canon law of incest (consanguinity, affinity, spiritual kinship), the prosecution of sexual offences and regulation of prostitution (especially in the Stews of Southwark), legal opinions about wife-beating, and the laws of nature concerning gender distinction (focusing on Chaucer's Pardoner) and the technicalities of castration. Sacramental and devotional practices are discussed, especially dealing with confession and penitence and the Mass. Chaucer's Prioress serves as the starting point for a treatment of regulations of nuns in medieval England and also for the presence, real and virtual, of Jews and Saracens (Muslims and pagans) in England and conversion efforts of the time, as well as sympathetic or antipathetic attitudes towards non-Christians. Included is a case study on the legend of St Cecilia in Chaucer and elsewhere, and as patron of music; and a discussion of canonistic opinion on the licit limits of medicinal magic (in connection with the ministrations of John the Carpenter in the Miller's Tale).
Author | : Helen Phillips |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842297 |
Chaucer's writings (the 'Canterbury Tales', lyrics and dream poems and Troilus) are here freshly examined in relation to the religions, the religious traditions and the religious controversies of his era.
Author | : Ian Johnson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107035643 |
Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Author | : Joseph Allen Hornsby |
Publisher | : Pilgrim Books (OK) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : C. David Benson |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780859913027 |
These thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the most neglected genre of the 'Canterbury Tales', the religious tales. Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of the volume is on Chaucer's four poems in rhyme royal: the 'Clerk's Tale', the 'Man of Law's Tale', the 'Second Nun's Tale' and the 'Prioress's Tale'. Almost all of Chaucer's tales are religious in some sense, but these four works deal specifically and deeply with faith and spiritual transcendence. They appeal to qualities, such as pathos, not now in critical fashion, but at the same time they seem extraordinarily contemporary in their special interest in women and feminist issues. The time is appropriate to recognise their importance in Chaucer's canon, for he is a religious poet as surely as he is a poet of comedy and secular love. These essays survey past criticism on the religious tales and offer new approaches.Contributors: C.DAVID BENSON, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, DEREK PEARSALL, BARBARA NOLAN, ROBERT WORTH FRANK, LINDA GEORGIANNA, CHARLOTTE C. MORSEA.S.G. EDWARDS, CAROLYN COLETTE, ELIZABETH D. KIRK, GEORGE R. KEISER, JANE COWGILL.
Author | : John Bugbee |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2018-12-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0268104484 |
God’s Patients approaches some of Chaucer’s most challenging poems with two philosophical questions in mind: How does action relate to passion, to being-acted-on? And what does it mean to submit one’s will to a law? Responding to critics (Jill Mann, Mark Miller) who have pointed out the subtlety of Chaucer’s approach to such fundamentals of ethics, John Bugbee seeks the source of the subtlety and argues that much of it is ready to hand in a tradition of religious (and what we would today call “mystical”) writing that shaped the poet’s thought. Bugbee considers the Clerk’s, Man of Law’s, Knight’s, Franklin’s, Physician’s, and Second Nun’s Tales in juxtaposition with an excellent informant on a major stream of medieval religious culture, Bernard of Clairvaux, whose works lay out ethical ideas closely matching those detectable beneath the surface of the poems. While some of the positions that emerge—most spectacularly the notion that the highest states of human being are ones in which activity and passivity cannot be disentangled—are anathema to much modern ethical thought, God’s Patients provides evidence that they were relatively common in the Middle Ages. The book offers striking new readings of Chaucer’s poems; it proposes a nuanced hermeneutical approach that should prove fruitful in reading a number of other high- and late-medieval works; and, by showing how assumptions about its two fundamental questions have shifted since Chaucer’s time, it provides a powerful new way of thinking about the transition between the Middle Ages and modernity.
Author | : Samantha Katz Seal |
Publisher | : Oxford Studies in Medieval Lit |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198832389 |
This volume offers a fresh interpretation of Geoffrey Chaucer both as a poet and as a man. Taking as its starting point the idea of Chaucer as the 'Father of English Poetry', the book explores how the poet's thoughts on paternity and creativity lie at the heart of The Canterbury Tales.
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Frank Grady |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107181003 |
A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.