Chaucer and the Art of Hagiography
- Author / Editor
- Braswell, Laurel.
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.