The Conflict between Art and Morality in Two Fourteenth-Century Poets: Juan Ruiz and Geoffrey Chaucer

Author / Editor
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.

Title
The Conflict between Art and Morality in Two Fourteenth-Century Poets: Juan Ruiz and Geoffrey Chaucer

Published
DAI 33.08 (1973): 4362A.

Description
Assesses ambivalence, conventional morality, and the functions of art in CT and in Juan Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor," commenting on the role of the narrator in Chaucer and the "staging" of multiple views on "caritas" and "cupiditas" in both works.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations