Chaucer, Geoffrey (134?-1400)

Author / Editor
Boyd, David Lorenzo.

Title
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