Historians on Chaucer : The "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales, Hardc...

Description: Historians on Chaucer : The "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales, Hardcover by Rigby, Stephen H. (EDT); Minnis, Alastair J. (CON), ISBN 0199689547, ISBN-13 9780199689545, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical human
condition, critics from a wide range of theoretical approaches have in recent years shown how the work of poets such as Chaucer constituted engagements with the power relations and social inequalities of their time. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, medieval historians have played little part in this
historical turn in the study of medieval literature. The aim of this volume is to allow historians who are experts in the fields of economic, social, political, religious, and intellectual history the chance to interpret one of the most famous works of Middle English literature, Geoffrey Chaucers
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, in its contemporary context. Rather than resorting to traditional historical attempts to see Chaucers descriptions of the Canterbury pilgrims as immediate reflections of historical reality or as portraits of real life people whom Chaucer knew, the
contributors to this volume have sought to show what interpretive frameworks were available to Chaucer in order to make sense of reality and how he adapted his literary and ideological inheritance so as to engage with the controversies and conflicts of his own day. Beginning with a survey of recent
debates about the social meaning of Chaucers work, the volume then discusses each of the Canterbury pilgrims in turn. Historians on Chaucer should be of interest to all scholars and students of medieval culture whether they are specialists in literature or history.

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