Chaucer and the Art of Hagiography

Author / Editor
Braswell, Laurel.

Title
Chaucer and the Art of Hagiography

Published
Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 209-21.

Description
In SNT and PrT, hagiography is used in an orthodox form, while in MLT and ClT, the devices of hagiography are used to amplify the moral character of secular tales. Hagiographic devices indicate that these tales are serious, not satire.

Alternative Title
Chaucer in the Eighties.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.