Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
- Published
- Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1982.
- Physical Description
- 245 pp.
- Description
- Later medieval medical theories and ethical commentaries recognized the benefits of literary pleasure. Olson's aim is "to redress an imbalance in modern scholarship that fosters, intentionally or not, the notion that medieval literary thought had nothing but indifference to or contempt for the purely pleasurable" (p. 13). Includes "Recreation in the 'Canterbury Tales'," pp. 155-63.
- Alternative Title
- Recreation in the Canterbury Tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.