Chaucer’s Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion.
- Author / Editor
- Murton, Megan E.
Chaucer’s Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion.
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020.
- Physical Description
- viii, 180 pp.
- Description
- Argues that Christian and pagan acts of prayer in Chaucer's works are fundamental to understanding his creative piety. Chaucer’s literary representations of prayer are collaborative and participatory "scripts" that involve the reader in the sacred experience of devotional subjectivity. Focuses on ABC, BD, HF, PF, TC, KnT, FranT, MLT, PrT, SNT, and Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- ABC
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale
Chaucer's Retraction