The Dangers and Promises of Reading, Two Medieval Viewpoints: Wolfram von Eschenbach and Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Classen, Albrecht.
The Dangers and Promises of Reading, Two Medieval Viewpoints: Wolfram von Eschenbach and Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Medieval Perspectives 11 (1996): 43-63.
- Description
- Summarizes the scholastic idea of the book and applies the concept of the written word (book) as "essential epistemological instrument" to Wolfram's "Titurel" fragments (ca. 1220) and to TC. Chaucer presents Troilus as a misreader of texts who only at the end of the romance--and tragically--learns to read accurately.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.