O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind! : Der Umgang mit dem Tod in der mittelenglischen Literatur
- Author / Editor
- Galler, Matthias.
O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind! : Der Umgang mit dem Tod in der mittelenglischen Literatur
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 419 pp.
- Series
- Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie, no. 34.
- Description
- Galler studies the theme of death in Middle English literature and argues against the "pessimistic" dictum that the people and works of the late Middle Ages were primarily concerned with the transience of life, the dominant approach on this subject since Johan Huizinga's "The Waning of the Middle Ages."
- Instead, Galler traces a distinctly "optimistic" perception of death founded on Christian salvation history, considering texts such as BD, KnT, TC, PardT, LGW, and several Middle English romances. He also discusses "questions of life and death beyond Christian tenets" (p. 399), examining Celtic narrative traditions and texts from classical philosophy and mythology.
- In German.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Legend of Good Women
- Knight and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale