Standardizing Lay Culture: Secularity in French and English Literature of the Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair.
Standardizing Lay Culture: Secularity in French and English Literature of the Fourteenth Century
- Published
- Ursula Schaefer, ed. The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 43-60.
- Description
- Minnis discusses the impact of Aristotelian social and political theory on the rise of a growing lay culture in France and England. Considers similarities among several "discourses of secular power" - including Chaucer's KnT and Gower's advice to princes in Confessio Amantis - and suggests that they are rooted in Aristotle's Ethics, the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics, and related works.
- Alternative Title
- Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.