Chaucer's Vision of the British Past: Literary Inheritance and Historical Memory in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Henley, Georgia.
Chaucer's Vision of the British Past: Literary Inheritance and Historical Memory in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Neophilologus 106 (2022): 331-47.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer favors the popular idea that Brittonic literature and history are primarily oral. By doing so, Chaucer distances his contemporary England, with its reliance on Latin textual and cultural authority, from the political reality of Welsh colonization and resistance, thus imposing a distance between English national history and the past of the Britons.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General