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Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity (Hardcover, Harperperennial)
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Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity (Hardcover, Harperperennial)
Series: Chaucer Studies
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Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde
and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central
to our understanding of the texts. Chaucer's two great pagan poems,
l>Troilus and Criseyde/l> and l>The Knight's Tale/l>,
belong to the literary genre known as the romance of antiquity'
(which first appeard in the mid 12th century), in which the ancient
pagan world is shown on its own terms, without the blatant
Christian bias against paganism characteristic of works like the
l>Chanson de Roland/l>, where the writer is concerned with
present-day rather than classical forms of paganism. Chaucer's
attitudes to antiquity were influenced, but not determined, by
those found in the compilations, commentaries, mythographies and
history books which we know that he knew. These sources illuminate
the manner in which he transformed Boccaccio. Much modern criticism
has concentrated on the medieval veneer of manners and fashions
which are ascribed to the heathen protagonists of
l>Troilus/l> and l>The Knight's Tale/l>; Dr Minnis
examines the other side of the coin, Chaucer's historical interest
in cultures very different from his own. The paganism in these
poems is not mere background and setting, but an essential part of
their overall meaning.
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