Intention, Integrity, and 'Renoun': The Public Virtue of Chaucer's Good Women
- Author / Editor
- Meecham-Jones, Simon.
Intention, Integrity, and 'Renoun': The Public Virtue of Chaucer's Good Women
- Published
- Carolyn P. Collette, ed. The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 132-56.
- Description
- In LGW, Chaucer sets classical action in the context of Christian notions of moral intention; he poses a range of subtly differentiated portraits of difficulty in recording truth in human terms and human time. Knowability, the narrator's presence, exemplarity, heroic renown, privacy, humility, and suffering recur as concerns, posing and challenging classical ideas of virtue, patristic notions of merit, and other structures of certainty.
- Alternative Title
- Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.