Discrecioun: Chaucer und die Via Regia
- Author / Editor
- Gillmeister, Heiner.
Discrecioun: Chaucer und die Via Regia
- Published
- Bonn: Bouvier, 1972.
- Physical Description
- 250 pp.
- Description
- Traces the meanings and nuances of "discrecioun" (moral and rational judgment) in classical and medieval traditions, examining Chaucer's uses of the word and its thematic implications across his career as a poet. Includes references to most of his works, with extended discussion of TC, Truth, Sted, GP, KnT, Tho, Mel, MkT, and NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Language and Word Studies
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Truth
- Lak of Stedfastnesse
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Knight and His Tale
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Tale of Melibee
- Monk and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale