What It Means to Own: Geoffrey Chaucer's Monk, Monastic Rule, and Giorgio Agamben.
- Author / Editor
- Meljac, Eric.
What It Means to Own: Geoffrey Chaucer's Monk, Monastic Rule, and Giorgio Agamben.
- Published
- Explicator 74.2 (2016): 80-82.
- Description
- Examines GP portrait of the Monk, and his obvious infractions against monastic norms and regulations, in light of Giorgio Agamben's "The Highest Property: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life" (2011), stressing not only the Monk's disdain for monastic poverty, but also his sin in owning property. Provides brief overview of Agamben's book as well.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale