Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Cole, Andrew.
Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer
- Published
- Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xx, 297 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 71.
- Description
- Post-Wycliffite writing has a different character from that which preceded it. Writers of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, including Chaucer, produced works with this novel character, often defined as heretical. Cole connects Chaucer's use of the vernacular and his interest in translation to Wycliffism. The prologue to Astr is the primary focus, with some attention to MLE.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Man of Law and His Tale