Usurping the Voice of Authority: Chaucer's Reply to Dante
- Author / Editor
- Azinfar, Fatemeh Chehregosha.
Usurping the Voice of Authority: Chaucer's Reply to Dante
- Published
- Atheism in the Medieval Islamic and European World: The Influence of Persian and Arabic Ideas of Doubt and Skepticism on Medieval European Literary Thought (Bethesda, Md.: Ibex Publishers, 2008), pp. 233-65.
- Description
- Azinfar reads the comic treatment of Dante in HF as a skeptical rejection of religious authority and discusses depictions of theological contradiction in Mars, Venus, and WBP. Chaucer's rationalism aligns him with other skeptics and atheists, medieval and modern.
- Alternative Title
- Atheism in the Medieval Islamic and European World: The Influence of Persian and Arabic Ideas of Doubt and Skepticism on Medieval European Literary Thought.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- House of Fame
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Complaint of Mars
- Complaint of Venus