Islam in Boccaccio's 'Decameron' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Islam in Boccaccio's 'Decameron' and Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Jon Ma. Asgeirsson and Nancy van Deusen, eds. Alexander's Revenge: Hellenistic Culture through the Centuries (Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press, 2002), pp. 209-21.
- Description
- Compares and contrasts the "treatment of Islam" in MLT and in "Decameron" 1.3 and 10.9, arguing that, unlike Boccaccio, Chaucer "vehemently condemns fraternizing with Islam" and presents Islam "as a dangerous and perfidious opposition to the Christian world," even though he "respects it as a source of learning."
- Contributor
- Asgeirsson, Jon Ma., ed.
- Van Deusen, Nancy, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Alexander's Revenge: Hellenistic Culture through the Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations