Space to Speke : The Confessional Subject in Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Root, Jerry.

Title
Space to Speke : The Confessional Subject in Medieval Literature

Published
New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Physical Description
[viii], 271 pp.

Series
American University Studies, ser. 2, Romance Languages and Literatures, no. 225.

Description
Examines how the confessional mandate of the Fourth Lateran Council provoked the rise of vernacular penitential manuals, and their impact on literary characters from Chaucer, Machaut, and the Libro de buen amor.
Revision of the author's 1991 dissertation.
Chapter 4, "Chaucer and the 'Space to Speke' the Private," is a revision of SAC 18 (1996), no. 189.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.