Vicious Praise: Flattery in Late Medieval English Politics and Poetry

Author / Editor
Walling, Amanda.

Title
Vicious Praise: Flattery in Late Medieval English Politics and Poetry

Published
DAI A68.09 (2008): n.p.

Description
Looks at flattery "as a practice" (for communicating with superiors) and "as a discourse" (the conventional railings against the practice) in a variety of Middle English texts. Chapter 3 examines Mel, MerT, and NPT as "conjunctions of flattery and antifeminism."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Merchant and His Tale
Tale of Melibee
Nun's Priest and His Tale