Ugly Beauty: Chaucer's Poetic Ecclesiology.
- Author / Editor
- Rowe, Britta B.
Ugly Beauty: Chaucer's Poetic Ecclesiology.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Virginia, 2017. Open access at https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/br86b3919; accessed May 26, 2024.
- Physical Description
- vi, 178 pp.
- Description
- Articulates Chaucer's Catholic orthodoxy in CT, contrasting it with Wycliffite heterodoxy, and arguing that, in Chaucer, a robust poetics of pious hope is evident, despite his satire of several ecclesiastical characters. Focuses on the characterizations and tales of the Parson, Clerk, Wife of Bath, Canon's Yeoman, Summoner, and Pardoner, along with the Tale of Melibee.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General