The Holy and the Unholy in Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Czarnowus, Anna.
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