Forty Years of Plague: Attitudes Toward Old Age in the Tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Sandidge, Marilyn.
Forty Years of Plague: Attitudes Toward Old Age in the Tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer
- Published
- Albrecht Classen, ed. Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic. (New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007), pp. 357-73.
- Series
- Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, no. 02.
- Description
- Youthful attitudes toward old age in the works of Boccaccio and Chaucer differ strikingly, perhaps because of demographic changes caused by the Black Plague. In Boccaccio, youth respects the wisdom of age, whereas in Chaucer young people resent the advice, authority, wealth, and existence of elders. KnT introduces the conflict between the generations, a motif throughout CT.
- Contributor
- Classen, Albrecht, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Knight and His Tale.