Politeness and Privacy: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- Burrow, J. A.
Politeness and Privacy: Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
- Published
- Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 65-75.
- Description
- Explores the concept of "civil inattention" ("a desire not to intrude on privacy") as it helps to explain the behavior of the dreamer toward the Black Knight in BD. The concept is described in modern sociology and occurs in several medieval romances besides BD: TC, Chretien's Yvain, and the work of Malory.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Troilus and Criseyde.