Chaucer and the Liturgy.
- Author / Editor
- Boyd, Beverly.
Chaucer and the Liturgy.
- Published
- Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1967.
vii, 88 pp.; 12 b&w plates.
- Physical Description
- vii, 88 pp.; 12 b&w plates.
- Description
- Explores the "predominant secularity" of Chaucer's "attitude" toward the liturgy in his various references to and uses of ecclesiastical calendars, legendaries (saints' lives, hagiographies, or lectionaries), sacramentals, breviaries, missals, primers, etc. Comments on various liturgical rites of medieval England (particularly the Use of Sarum), and describes a range of "liturgical materials" in Chaucer, with extended discussions of SNT, PrT, LGW as a legendary, references to saints in oaths in CT, the "crowned A" of TC 1.171, Chaucer's relationship with Lollard and Wycliffite concerns, etc. The volume includes an index.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Second Nun and Her Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde