"And biddeth ek for hem that ben despeired": Chaucer's Bidding Prayer for Lovers as an Example of (Mock)religious Discourse.
- Author / Editor
- Ruszkiewicz, Dominika.
"And biddeth ek for hem that ben despeired": Chaucer's Bidding Prayer for Lovers as an Example of (Mock)religious Discourse.
- Published
- Barbara Marczuk and Iwona Piechnik, eds. Discours religieux: Langages, textes, traductions (Kraków: Biblioteka Jagiellonska, 2020), pp. 305-17.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer's alterations to Boccaccio's "Filostrato" in TC, I.22–49, were influenced by liturgical "bidding prayers," and that the God-centered Boethianism of the passage works with the ending of Chaucer's poem to "frame" its recurrent concern with religious, cosmic love that is higher than and preferable to courtly or worldly love.
- Contributor
- Marczuk, Barbara, ed.
Piechnik, Iwona, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Discours religieux: Langages, textes, traductions
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations