Sacred And Profane In Chaucer And Late Medieval Literature
Download and Read Sacred And Profane In Chaucer And Late Medieval Literature full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Sacred And Profane In Chaucer And Late Medieval Literature ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature
Author | : Will Robins |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442640812 |
Download Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 essays do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical. With essays by former students of John V. Fleming, the collection pays tribute to the Princeton University professor emeritus through wide-ranging scholarship and literary criticism. Including reflections on depictions of Bathsheba, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, Chaucer's Pardoner, and Margery Kempe, these essays focus on literature while ranging into history, philosophy, and the visual arts. Taken together, the work suggests that the domain of the sacred, as perceived in the Middle Ages, can variously be seen as having a hierarchical or a complementary relationship to the things of this world.
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature Related Books
Pages: 249
Pages: 271
Pages: 185
Pages: 266
Pages: 272