Fragment VII of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and the 'Mental Climate of the Fourteenth Century'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Emerson,Jr.
Fragment VII of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and the 'Mental Climate of the Fourteenth Century'
- Published
- David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990), pp. 50-58.
- Description
- CT, like the intellectual disputes of the fourteenth century, is characterized by extremes. Applying David Knowles's discussion of the period to fragment VII of CT, Brown notes that ShT, PrT, Th, Mel, and MkT show the "tendency to extremism characteristic of the age." Only NPT forms a coherent whole.
- Alternative Title
- Traditions and Innovations: Essays on British Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Shipman and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Tale of Sir Thopas.
- Tale of Melibee.
- Monk and His Tale.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.