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Keywords
- ideology
- liberty
- Ovid
- poet
- poetry
About this book
Divided between the outer world of affairs and the inner world of poetic insight, Chaucer sought to make sense of his changing, conflicting world. In Chaucer and the Late Medieval World , Lillian M. Bisson examines the societal issues that the poet explored in his work. She focuses on three major areas of medieval life - religion, class/commerce, and gender - all of which were experiencing considerable change in the fourteenth century. The book builds a bridge between an unmediated encounter with Chaucer's texts and the more specialized discussions found in most contemporary criticism, and provides a detailed analysis of Christian culture. By placing each topic in a broad cultural context, Chaucer and the Late Medieval World helps the reader to better understand the questions that teased Chaucer's imagination into poetry and to enter into the cultural conversation with which he engaged his audience.
About the author
LILLIAN M. BISSON is Professor of English and Chair of the Literature and Languages Department at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chaucer and the Late Medieval World
Book Subtitle: The Poet and the Late Medieval World
Authors: Lillian M. Bisson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22466-0Published: 11 February 2000
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 294