Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity
- Author / Editor
- Tracy, Larissa.
Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity
- Published
- Cambridge: Brewer, 2012.
- Physical Description
- x, 326 pp.
- Description
- Chapter 5 focuses on comic uses of brutality in CT, particularly in MilT and KnT. Also addresses how Chaucer refers to torture in MLT, but rejects excessive brutality in PrT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale