Mittelalter und Renaissance in England: Von der Altenglischen Elegien bis Shakespeares Tragögien
- Author / Editor
- Erzgräber, Willi.
Mittelalter und Renaissance in England: Von der Altenglischen Elegien bis Shakespeares Tragögien
- Published
- Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1997.
- Physical Description
- 569 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- Twenty-two essays by Erzgräber, most of them previously published. Eight of the essays pertain to Chaucer, one published here for the first time: "Predestination in Langland and Chaucer" (pp. 179-201). In it, Erzgräber surveys St. Augustine's doctrine of predestination and its influence on Langland's "Piers Plowman"; he then summarizes Boethius's philosophical approach to fate and fortune and describes Chaucer's uses of Boethius in TC. Langland and Chaucer both maintain that human will is free.
- Alternative Title
- "Predestination in Langland and Chaucer."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations