The Holy War in the Popular Romances of Prys : Intertextuality in Chaucer's 'The Tale of Sir Thopas'

Author / Editor
Markus, Manfred.

Title
The Holy War in the Popular Romances of Prys : Intertextuality in Chaucer's 'The Tale of Sir Thopas'

Published
Uwe Boker et al., eds. Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages. Festschrift for Karl Heinz Goller on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday (Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004), pp. 95-108.

Description
Explores the often-submerged relations between Middle English romances and the Crusades, reading Th as Chaucer's rejection of the "pleasure of indoctrination directed against the pagan enemy." Considers Th "modern, partly even postmodern," in its intertextuality, metafictive qualities, and fragmentary nature.

Alternative Title
Of Remembraunce the Keye: Medieval Literature and Its Impact Through the Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Sir Thopas.