Langland and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Watson, Nicholas.
Langland and Chaucer
- Published
- Andrew Hass, David Jasper, and Elisabeth Jay, eds. The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 363-81.
- Series
- Oxford Handbooks in Religion and Theology.
- Description
- Watson summarizes the theocentrism of the late Middle Ages, examines Langland's critique of formal theology in "Piers Plowman," and discusses how CT disclaims theological authority in exploring truth and moral utility. Argues that Mel may be the "theological centre" of CT, and reads ClT as an "antonym" to Mel.
- Contributor
- Hass, Andrew, David Jasper, and Elisabeth Jay, eds.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Tale of Melibee.
- Clerk and His Tale.