Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Williams, Tara.
Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
- Published
- New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 179-208.
- Description
- Argues that a "relationship between magic, spectacle, and morality . . . preoccupies a number" of fourteenth-century Middle English texts, focusing on the magical objects in SqT and other instances of magic in CT to exemplify the variety and complexities of the relationship. Considers at length how Canacee's ring links magic to morality because it "facilitates true communication."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
- Canterbury Tales--General