Designing a Camel: or, Generalizing the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Donaldson, E. Talbot.
Designing a Camel: or, Generalizing the Middle Ages
- Published
- Tennessee Studies in Literature 22 (1977): 1-16.
- Description
- An analysis of evidence from CT, "Piers Plowman," and "The Divine Comedy" as well as from the writings of medieval saints and modern scholars indicates that generalizations regarding Christian behavior, the motivations of artists, and concepts of antifeminism and antisemitism in "the medieval mind" are often facile and misleading.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.