Chaucerian Romance and the World Beyond Europe

Author / Editor
Fyler, John M.

Title
Chaucerian Romance and the World Beyond Europe

Published
Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, eds. Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), pp. 257-63.

Description
MLT and PrT "recoil from the otherness of Islam and of medieval Jewry," but SqT treats the Mongols with "toleration and an engaged sympathy." The xenophobia of the first two "Tales" indicates that they should be read ironically; SqT is Chaucer's metaphor for the "difficulty of bridging gaps."

Alternative Title
Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture: Selected Papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Prioress and Her Tale.