Piety and Resistance: a Note on the Representation of Religious Feeling in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Leicester, H. Marshall [Jr.]

Title
Piety and Resistance: a Note on the Representation of Religious Feeling in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
M. Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 151-60.

Description
Leicester explores nuances of "pietee" and "pietas," distinguishes between institutional and affective piety, and asserts that texts cannot be pious but can only represent piety.
CYPT is religious insofar as it represents the Yeoman's "hunger to discover spirit behind the masks of matter."

Alternative Title
The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.