Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Mercantile Ethic
- Author / Editor
- Scaglione, Aldo.
Boccaccio, Chaucer, and the Mercantile Ethic
- Published
- David Daiches and Anthony Thorlby, eds. Literature and Western Civilization, II: The Medieval World (London: Aldus, 1973), pp. 579-600.
- Description
- Sketches the rise of mercantilism in medieval Europe, and details the presence of the "bourgeois spirit" in Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Chaucer's CT, evident in realism, economic motivation, and challenges to aristocratic privilege. Similar in their mercantile ethic, the two authors differ in their willingness to accept (Boccaccio) or reject (Chaucer) the separation of moral and aesthetic judgments.
- Reprinted in Aldo Scaglione. Essays on the Arts of Discourse: Linguistics, Rhetoric, Poetics, edited by Paolo Cherchi, Stephen Murphy, Allen Mandelbaum, and Giuseppe Velli (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), pp. 121-38.
- Contributor
- Daiches, David, ed.
- Thorlby, Anthony, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and Western Civilization, II: The Medieval World.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Life