The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Vitto, Cindy L.

Title
The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature

Published
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989.

Series
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 79, pt. 5.

Description
Treats the debate over the problem of salvation for the virtuous pagan and the solutions of theologians in the medieval Church and then concentrates on Dante, "St. Erkenwald," and "Piers Plowman."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.