The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Peter, and Andrew Butcher.
The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
- Physical Description
- xii, 296 pp.
- Description
- Examines CT within the social and political life of the later fourteenth century. Chaucer had an unusually assimilative, syncretic, and integrative imagination, but he lived at a time of disintegrating social and religious forms and values. He was not a poet who chose to "rise above" such circumstances; rather, he wrote words that articulate and analyze, sometimes in coded form, the specific problems he and his society faced.
- His tendency was not to offer easy solutions but to provoke,air, and sustain debate, often by adopting the point of view of a Christian radical. Specific chapters discuss the Wife of Bath, the Franklin, the Pardoner, the Merchant, and the Knight.
- Contributor
- Butcher, Andrew.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Life.