The Orientation of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Kaylor, Noel Harold. Jr.
The Orientation of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 10 (1995-96): 133-47.
- Description
- Chaucer's allusions to the Orient or to the East (e.g., to Turkey, Syria, and India) refer, on the one hand, to a practical knowledge of geography and, on the other--with ecclesiastical use of the "mappae mundi" in mind--to a symbolic spiritual goal, a reorientation in which East is upward.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.