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Historians on Chaucer - The 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
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Historians on Chaucer - The 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
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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 Chaucer's 'General Prologue' to the
Canterbury Tales, in its contemporary context. Rather than
resorting to traditional historical attempts to see Chaucer's
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 Chaucer's 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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