European Literature in the Late Middle Ages in Its Political and Social Contexts
- Author / Editor
- Erzgräber, Willi.
European Literature in the Late Middle Ages in Its Political and Social Contexts
- Published
- H. Maes-Jelinek et al., eds. Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon (Liege: University of Liege, English Department, 1987), pp. 103-21.
- Description
- Examines Chaucer's fabliaux (MilT and RvT) as designed for a courtly audience and TC as revealing a "subtle interplay between nobility, gentry, and the middle class." Chaucer's work is symptomatic of a general literary development: "the exploration of experience on a purely humanistic basis."
- Reprinted in Erzgräber's Mittelalter und Renaissance in England: Von der Altenglischen Elegien bis Shakespeares Tragögien (Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1997), pp. 345-64.
- Alternative Title
- Multiple Worlds, Multiple Words: Essays in Honour of Irene Simon.
- Mittelalter und Renaissance in England: Von der Altenglischen Elegien bis Shakespeares Tragögien.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.