Mimesis on Trial: Legal and Literary Verisimilitude in Boccaccio's "Decameron."
- Author / Editor
- Steinberg, Justin.
Mimesis on Trial: Legal and Literary Verisimilitude in Boccaccio's "Decameron."
- Published
- Representations 139 (2017): 118-45.
- Description
- Makes the case that Boccaccio responds in the many trial scenes of the "Decameron" to contemporary concerns about verisimilitude in judicial proceedings. Claims that Boccaccio shifts in the role of judicial figures from mediators to determiners of fact in an inquisitorial model, providing a pattern that Chaucer follows in CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations