'Th'ende is every tales strengthe': Contextualizing Chaucerian Perspectives on Death and Judgment
- Author / Editor
- Phelpstead, Carl.
'Th'ende is every tales strengthe': Contextualizing Chaucerian Perspectives on Death and Judgment
- Published
- Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Brewer, 2010), pp. 97-110.
- Description
- Focuses on the "ars moriendi" (art of dying) manuals, that might have influenced Chaucer's writings on death, dying, and Purgatory in the MLT and PardT, among others. Includes background on treatises on the art of dying as well as changing attitudes about death in the late Middle Ages.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Religion.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale