Topography as Historiography : Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome
- Author / Editor
- Summit, Jennifer.
Topography as Historiography : Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30: 211-46, 2000.
- Description
- Petrarch's "Letter to Colonna," twelfth-century handbooks for travelers and pilgrims, and SNT exhibit a characteristically medieval historiography that displaces a model of loss and recovery with one representing historical difference through spatial continuity and conversion. In SNT, individuals take on the features of architectural monuments, becoming "vacant subjects" open to conversion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.