Medieval Songs of Innocence and Experience: The Adult Writer and Literature for Children

Author / Editor
Brockman, Bennett A.

Title
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