Motives for Pilgrimage: 'The Tale of Beryn'
- Author / Editor
- Medcalf, Stephen.
Motives for Pilgrimage: 'The Tale of Beryn'
- Published
- Nicholas Rogers, ed. England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium (Stamford, Conn.: Paul Watkins, 1993), pp. 97-108.
- Description
- Explores the motives for pilgrimage implied in Beryn and CT, comparing them with the urge to "darshan" ("seek the deity") in Hindu tradition. The motives of the fictional pilgrims are more genuinely spiritual than has been argued by some critics.
- Alternative Title
- England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1991 Harlaxton Symposium.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.