Medieval Songs of Innocence and Experience: The Adult Writer and Literature for Children
- Author / Editor
- Brockman, Bennett A.
Medieval Songs of Innocence and Experience: The Adult Writer and Literature for Children
- Published
- Children's Literature 2 (1973): 40-49.
- Description
- Discusses the "sentimental reverence for the child's innocence" in a variety of medieval texts, including the account of Hugolino in MkT, compared with the version in Dante's "Inferno" 33, In both versions, the children have "precocious knowledge" but no "adult discernment."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations