'Th'ende is every tales strengthe': Contextualizing Chaucerian Perspectives on Death and Judgment

Author / Editor
Phelpstead, Carl.

Title
'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