Confessing Something New: The Twenty-First Canon of the Fourth Lateran Council and English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Larson, Wendy A.
Confessing Something New: The Twenty-First Canon of the Fourth Lateran Council and English Literature.
- Published
- Maureen B. M. Boulton, ed. Literary Echoes of the Fourth Lateran Council in England and France, 1215–1405 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2019), pp. 229-70.
- Description
- Surveys the cultural impact of "Omnis utriusque sexus," and shows how Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve used "confessional discourse" to help construct subjectivities in their works. Comments on ParsT as the "best known confessional manual in Middle English," and explains how in CYPT the Canon's Yeoman's "subjectivity is located at the intersection of confessional discourse and that of alchemy, creating a tension from which he cannot escape."
- Contributor
- Boulton, Maureen B. M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Echoes of the Fourth Lateran Council in England and France, 1215–1405
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale
Parson and His Tale