The Judaic Other in Dante, the "Gawain" Poet, and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Cox, Catherine S.
The Judaic Other in Dante, the "Gawain" Poet, and Chaucer
- Published
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2005.
- Physical Description
- x, 239 pp.
- Description
- Four chapters and an epilogue. Chapter 1 establishes the background for exploration of "the late medieval legacy of early Christianity's appropriation of the Hebrew scriptures." Chapters 2-3 assess Dante's "Commedia" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," respectively. Chapter 4, "The Jewish Pardoner and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" (pp. 111-44), explores how in PardPT and PrT Christian appropriations of the Old Testament are cast into relief by the conflicts and contingencies of scriptural interpretation. In this way, the appropriations "betray a reliance upon the legitimacy and currency of the original precepts."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.