On Saracen Enjoyment : Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England

Author / Editor
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.

Title
On Saracen Enjoyment : Some Fantasies of Race in Late Medieval France and England

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31: 113-46, 2001.

Description
Echoing Chaucer's poetry while portraying non-Christian, racialized others, the Middle English romance "The Sultan of Babylon" invokes a "Saracen Chaucer" whose status as national poet depends on such markers of difference.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.