New essays on Chaucer’s engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century.
How do critics, religious scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view Chaucer’s relationship to religion? And how can he be taught and studied in an increasingly secular and multi-cultural environment? The essays here, on [the
Canterbury Tales,
Troilus and Criseyde, lyrics and dream poems, aim to provide an orientation on the study of the the religions, the religious traditions and the religious controversies of his era – and to offer new perspectives upon them. Using a variety of theoretical, critical and historical approaches, they deal with topics that include Chaucer in relation to lollardy, devotion to the saint and the Virgin Mary, Judaism and Islam, and the Bible; attitudes towards sex, marriage and love; ethics, both Christian and secular; ideas on death and the Judgement; Chaucer’s handling of religious genres such as hagiography and miracles, as well as other literary traditions – romance, ballade, dream poetry, fablliaux and the middle ages’ classical inheritance – which pose challenges to religious world views. These are complemented by discussion of a range of issues related to teaching Chaucer in Britain and America today, drawn from practical experience.
Contributors: Anthony Bale, Alcuin Blamires, Laurel Broughton, Helen Cooper, Graham D. Caie, Roger Dalrymple, Dee Dyas, D. Thomas Hanks Jr., Stephen Knight, Carl Phelpstead, Helen Phillips, David Raybin, Sherry Reames, Jill Rudd.
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: Chaucer and Religion – Helen Cooper
Love, Marriage, Sex, Gender – Alcuin Blamires
Chaucer and the Bible – Graham Caie
Chaucer and Lollardy – Frances Mc Cormack
‘Toward the Fen’: Church and Churl in Chaucer’s Fabliaux – Stephen Knight
‘A maner Latyn corrupt’: Chaucer and the Absent Religions – Anthony Bale
The Matter of Chaucer: Chaucer and the Boundaries of Romance – Helen Phillips
Mary, Sanctity and Prayers to Saints: Chaucer and Late-Medieval Piety – Sherry L Reames
‘Th’ende is every tales strengthe’: Contextualising Chaucerian Perspectives on Death and Judgement – Carl Phelpstead
Chaucer and the Saints: Miracles and Voices of Faith – Laurel Broughton
Chaucer and the Communities of Pilgrimage – Dee Dyas
Classicising Christianity in Chaucer’s Dream Poems: the
Book of the Duchess,
Book of Fame, and
Parliament of Fowls – Stephen Knight
Morality in the
Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s Lyrics and the
Legend of Good Women – Helen Phillips
‘To demen by interrogaciouns’: Accessing the Christian Context of the
Canterbury Tales with Enquiry/Based Learning – Roger Dalrymple
‘Gladly wolde [they] lerne [?]’: U.S. Students and the Chaucer Class – D Thomas Hanks Jr
Teaching Teachers: Chaucer, Ethics, and Romance – David Raybin
Reflections on Teaching Chaucer and Religion: The
Nun’s Priest’s Tale and the
Man of Law’s Tale – J Rudd
Over de auteur
SHERRY L. REAMES is Professor Emerita of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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