The Crusading Imaginary of Late Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Norako, Leila Kathleen.
The Crusading Imaginary of Late Medieval England.
- Published
- Ph.D, Dissertation. University of Rochester, 2012. Dissertation Abstracts International A73.09 (E).
- Physical Description
- 289 pp,
- Description
- Argues that a variety of "fourteenth- and fifteenth-century recovery romances create a convergent set of fantasies that reflect desires both for the reclamation of the Holy Land and for the protection and ascendance of Christianity." Chapter four "considers the roles of Mongols and Saracens in 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville,' the romance 'The King of Tars,' and several of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'," arguing that "cultural Others complicate the binaries of crusade and recovery romances, transforming confrontation into contact and exchange."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General