Poets and Politics: Just War in Geoffrey Chaucer and Christine de Pizan
- Author / Editor
- Forhan, Kate L.
Poets and Politics: Just War in Geoffrey Chaucer and Christine de Pizan
- Published
- Henrik Syse and Gregory M. Reichberg, eds. Ethics, Nationalism, and Just War: Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 2007), pp. 99-116.
- Description
- Forhan summarizes the "dynastic quarrel" of the Hundred Years' War and describes the pacifist recommendations as prudent in Chaucer's Mel and in several works by Christine de Pizan. Treats the two writers as "catalysts" in the late medieval "laicization and secularization of power." In Mel, prudential pacifism is a matter of self-interest.
- Contributor
- Syse, Henrik, ed.
- Reichberg, Gregory M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Ethics, Nationalism, and Just War: Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee