Chaucer and Hagiographic Authority.
- Author / Editor
- Sisk, Jennifer.
Chaucer and Hagiographic Authority.
- Published
- Eva von Contzen and Anke Bernau, eds. Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015), pp. 116-33.
- Description
- Explores how Chaucer addresses the sacred authority of hagiography, posing it in tension with the poet's own authority in LGWP, and examining authority and authorization in the "pseudo-hagiographies" of CT (MLT, ClT, and PhyT) where Chaucer recontextualizes the conventions of saints' lives in secular settings and experiments with several "alternative methods of textual authorisation." Observes that "confessional performances follow immediately upon tales that strive for hagiographic authority."
- Contributor
- von Contzen, Eva, ed.
Bernau, Anke, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Man of Law and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Physician and His Tale