Man's Flesh and Woman's Spirit in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Thompson, N. S.
Man's Flesh and Woman's Spirit in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1999), pp. 17-29.
- Description
- CT and Boccaccio's Decameron depict a variety of social and moral transgressions committed by male characters; these transgressions constitute the ills of society. Female characters in the works are less likely to be transgressive, and only female characters are depicted as true saints.
- Alternative Title
- Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.