The Dominican Presence in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Wenzel, Siegfried.
The Dominican Presence in Middle English Literature
- Published
- Kent Emery, Jr., and Joseph Wawrykow, eds. Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans: Representations of Christ in the Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers. Notre Dame Conferences in Medieval Studies, no. 7 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998), pp. 315-31.
- Description
- Summarizes various kinds of influence Dominicans may have had on Chaucer, Gower, and Langland. From the lumping of Dominicans with other friars in literary portraits, to the influence of individual Dominican writers, to Dominican notions of salvation and piety, there is little marked Dominican presence in the works of these Middle English writers. Select lyrics may show a more distinct presence, however, perhaps even authorship.
- Alternative Title
- Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans: Representations of Christ in the Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Friar and His Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.