The Holy and the Unholy in Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'

Author / Editor
Czarnowus, Anna.

Title
The Holy and the Unholy in Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'

Published
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 47 (2011-12): 115-28.

Description
Although the SqT draws on missionary accounts of Mongol culture in which religion and magic, the "holy" and the "unholy," are seen as confused, the Tale itself treats magic as something manmade, a technological marvel, eliciting admiration and promoting community.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations