The CANTERBURY TALES and the Good Society / / Paul A. Olson.
Paul Olson argues that Chaucer's narratives emerge from his deep concern about the crises of late fourteenth-century England and his vision of the renewal of that troubled society through the ideal of parlement, the various orders of society speaking together, and through a perfective religious...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (394 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Part I. Chaucer, Social Theory, and Fourteenth- Century History
- Introduction. On Looking at the Meaning of Chaucer's Language
- 1. The General Prologue, the Three-Estate Theory, and the "Age and Body" of the Time
- Part II. The Canterbury Tales on Temporal Lords
- 2. The Order of the Passion and Internal Order
- 3. The Lawyer's Tale and the History of Christian English Law
- 4. Chaucer on Temporal Power and Art
- PART III. The CANTERBURY TALES on the Spiritual Power
- 5. Stratford's Nunnery, Sapience, and Monasticism's Critical Role
- 6. Monasticism's Royal Claim
- 7. The Hierarchy's Keys
- 8. Summoner Wrath on Friar Perfection
- 9. The Sect of the Wife of Bath and the Quest for Perfection
- 10. In Conclusion
- APPENDIX. A Note on the Relationship of Meaning and Historical Forms of Life
- Index
- Backmatter