Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome.
- Author / Editor
- Summit, Jennifer.
Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome.
- Published
- Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith, eds. Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates (New York; Routledge, 2014), pp. 304-20.
- Description
- Looks at Rome's classical geography and topography within Petrarch's "Letter to Colonna" and Chaucer's SNT. Argues that these "medieval topographies" create ways of "taxonomizing space" and deepen an understanding of the material history of medieval Christianity within the political and religious landscape of Rome.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations