Petrarch's Pleasures, Chaucer's Revulsions, and the Aesthetics of Renunciation in Late-Medieval Culture

Author / Editor
Galloway, Andrew.

Title
Petrarch's Pleasures, Chaucer's Revulsions, and the Aesthetics of Renunciation in Late-Medieval Culture

Published
Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway, eds. Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2013), pp. 140-68.

Description
Explores a relationship between "late-medieval aesthetics and renunciation" in ClT and establishes differences between Petrarch's and Chaucer's treatments of the Griselda story. Points out that Chaucer's Clerk challenges both Petrarch's "absolutist" and his "aesthetic values."

Alternative Title
Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations