"Avant la lettre": Philip Perry, Reconversionist Aesthetics, and the Medieval Literary.

Description: Posits that Philip Perry, an eighteenth-century priest and early practitioner of medievalism, was a pioneer in using original sources, among them Chaucer. Perry's unpublished notebooks contain detailed information on many medieval writers and their work, including Gower, Lydgate, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and others. Focuses on the fact that Perry believed Chaucer, like Langland, was a satirist of Church practices, not a heretical writer.

Chaucer Subjects: Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion