Medieval Things: Materiality, Historicism, and the Premodern Object
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Kellie.
Medieval Things: Materiality, Historicism, and the Premodern Object
- Published
- Literature Compass 5.6 (2008): 1060-80.
- Description
- Surveys materialist "thing theory" as background on how objectivities and subjectivities interacted in medieval and early modern cultures. Summarizes work to date on the topic and considers how the accoutrements of the Merchant (especially his hat) in GP point to "things as events whose signified is their own interiority"--not simply indications of human subjects, but subjects in their own right.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales