Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Patterson, Lee.

Title
Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature

Published
Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Description
Considers "political agendas" that governed the development of Chaucer scholarship and textual criticism and analyzes medieval studies in terms of current theories about historicism. CT bears "a privileged relation" to the historic moment. Chapters on "Piers Plowman," TC, "Roman d'Eneas," "Erec et Enide," and the alliterative "Mort Arthure."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Canterbury Tales--General
Troilus and Criseyde