Rethinking Chaucer's Legend of Good Women

Name: Rethinking Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
Brand: York Medieval Press
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By Collette, Carolyn P.

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The Legend of Good Women has perhaps not always had the appreciation or attention it deserves. Here, it is read as one of Chaucer's major texts, a thematically and artistically sophisticated work whose veneer of transparency and narrow focus masks a vital inquiry into basic questions of value, moderation, and sincerity in late medieval culture. The volume places Chaucer within several literary contexts, including narratives centred in women's choices written by Boccaccio, Machaut, Gower and Christine de Pizan; and the pervasive late fourteenth-century cultural influence of Aristotelian ideas of the mean, moderation, and value. It concludes with two chapters on the context of Chaucer's continual reconsideration of issues of exchange, moderation and fidelity apparent in thematic, figurative and semantic connections that link the both to Troilus and Criseyde and to the women of The Canterbury Tales

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Number of Pages:: 186
Release Date:: 2014-03-20
Publication Date:: 2014-03-20
Publisher:: York Medieval Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1903153492
ISBN13:: 9781903153499
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 449 g
Height:: 16.1 cm
Width:: 24 cm
Thickness:: 1.5 cm

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