The Postcolonial Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.
The Postcolonial Middle Ages
- Published
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- [viii], 286 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by Cohen, using and critiquing postcolonial theory in discussing medieval texts. Topics include the idea of the Orient; notions of time (temporalities) in postcolonial studies; Christian heterogeneity; the othernesses of Islam, Judaism, and Celtic culture; Prester John; Lollard and Lancastrian English; and Lydgate. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Postcolonial Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.