Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Yeager, Suzanne M.

Title
Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer.

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 197-215.

Description
Argues that Chaucer’s critique of "curiositas" as "the prevailing failure and motivation of medieval travel" is "successfully negotiated" by several late medieval travel authors. Concentrates on readings from travel accounts by Simon Simeonis and Thomas Brygg, to demonstrate the range of possibilities for pilgrim-narrators.

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General