Magic in Medieval Romance from Chrétien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Sweeney, Michelle.
Magic in Medieval Romance from Chrétien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Dublin : Four Courts Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- 199 pp.
- Description
- Magic enables discussion of contemporary political and social issues and timeless questions of faith, love, loyalty, fate, and destiny. The concluding chapter shows how magic in FranT enables discussion of free will and challenges the Franklin's concept of nobility. By mixing illusion and magic, Chaucer debates fundamentals of social status and issues of contemporary class-climbing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.