Magic, Machines, and Deception: Technology in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Lionarons, Joyce Tally.
Magic, Machines, and Deception: Technology in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 27 (1993): 377-86.
- Description
- Chaucer most often depicts technology as an aid to trickery and fraud. Chaucer's mechanical wonders--such as those in FrT, SqT, and CYT--are potentially dangerous to persons lacking inside knowledge. Even simple machines can deceive. Though Chaucer is not necessarily antitechnological, he is generally skeptical of machinery.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.