Law and religion in Chaucer's England
These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of "The Canterbury Tales". Topics include the canon law of i...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham :
Ashgate
cop. 2010
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| Colección: | Variorum collected studies series ;
CS957 |
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- A sex/gender. Shades of incest and cuckoldry : Pandarus and John of Gaunt ; Bishop, prioress, and bawd in the Stews of Southwark ; Medieval laws and views on wife-beating ; The Pardoner's voice, disjunctive narrative, and modes of effemination
- The sacraments. Sacraments, sacramentals, and lay piety in Chaucer's England ; Penitential theology and law at the turn of the fifteenth century
- Non-Christians and England. Jews and Saracens in Chaucer's England : a review of the evidence ; "The Prioress's tale" in context : god and bad reports of non-Christians in fourteenth-century England ; Chaucer's Knight and the northern "crusades" : the example of Henry Bolingbroke
- Case studies. A neo-revisionist look at Chaucer's nuns ; How Cecilia came to be a saint and patron (matron?) of music ; Canon law and Chaucer on licit and illicit magic
