Chaucer, Geoffrey (134?-1400)
- Author / Editor
- Boyd, David Lorenzo.
Chaucer, Geoffrey (134?-1400)
- Published
- Claude J. Summers, ed. The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present. Rev. ed. (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 147-48.
- Description
- Boyd summarizes the tension in medieval tradition between the promotion of homosocial bonding and the proscription of sodomy. He characterizes Chaucer's treatment of male homosexuality in CT as typically homophobic.
- Contributor
- Summers, Claude J., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader's Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General