Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Mitchell, J. Allan
Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 187 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Mitchell explores the relationships among fortune, ethics, and validity in TC and other late medieval writings: Usk's "Testament of Love," "The Chaunce of the Dyse," Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," and Malory's "Morte Darthure." Examines Bo and the Boethian concepts of love, fortune, and freedom in TC and how these concerns are manifest in related ways in Usk's work and "The Chaunce of the Dyse."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Boece