New Science, Old Dance: The Clerk and the Wife of Bath at Philology
- Author / Editor
- Stillinger, Thomas C.
New Science, Old Dance: The Clerk and the Wife of Bath at Philology
- Published
- Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager, eds. Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 223-38.
- Description
- Observing that threshold between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk and between their tales, Stillinger explores how Chaucer stands at the "threshold between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (224): "If the Clerk imports the new science of the Renaissance" into CT, the Wife of Bath "seems to stand for the old dance of the Middle Ages" (232).
- Alternative Title
- Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Clerk and His Tale