Diachronic History and the Shortcomings of Medieval Studies
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
Diachronic History and the Shortcomings of Medieval Studies
- Published
- Gordon McMullan and David Matthews, eds. Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 17-30.
- Description
- Whereas fifteenth-century writers such as Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Skelton wrote texts that engaged in "a kind of conversation" with Chaucer, sixteenth-century writers treated Chaucer as a distant topic of philological study. Simpson argues that this contrast is emblematic of English literary history as practiced today.
- Alternative Title
- Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.