Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Webb, Diana.
Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages
- Published
- New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 266 pp.
- Description
- Surveys medieval notions and representations of privacy in relation to various religious and devotional practices, study, gardening, social spaces, and the demise of community. Comments recurrently on Chaucer's depictions of solitude, focusing on his "acute sense of place and interior space" in TC.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde