'The Metropol and the Mayster-Toun': Cosmopolitanism and Late Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
'The Metropol and the Mayster-Toun': Cosmopolitanism and Late Medieval Literature
- Published
- Vinay Dharwadker, ed. Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture. Essays from the English Institute (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 33-62.
- Series
- Essays from the English Institute.
- Description
- Crossing tendencies characterize the "cosmopolitanism" of the late Middle Ages, and the story of Troy is the "paradigmatic cosmopolitan narrative." Edwards comments on Lydgate's "Troy Book" and addresses the mysterious pagan judge of "Saint Erkenwald." Troilus's laughter at the end of TC "interrogates" the cosmopolitanism of "medieval adaptations of classical literary conventions."
- Contributor
- Dharwadker, Vinay, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde