The 'Canterbury Tales' in Eschatological Perspective

Author / Editor
Emmerson, Richard Kenneth,and Ronald B. Herzman.

Title
The 'Canterbury Tales' in Eschatological Perspective

Published
Werner Verbeke, Daniel Verhelst, and Andries Welkenhuysen, eds. The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Ser. 1, no. 15 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1988), pp. 404-24.

Description
After advocating eschatological explication of medieval poems not explicitly apocalyptic in nature and concluding that Thomas Wimbledon's "Sermon" (1388) exhibits personal and universal eschatological elements, Emmerson and Herzman examine such elements in "Piers Plowman," "The Divine Comedy," Chaucer's Ret, the pilgrim frame of CT, ParsT, and PardT.

Contributor
Herzman, Ronald B.
Verhelst, Daniel,
Welkenhuysen,
Verbeke, Werner,ed.
ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.