News from the East.
- Author / Editor
- Bale, Anthony.
News from the East.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 1-33.
- Description
- Investigates late fifteenth-century English representations of Ottoman Turks and Rhodes, assessing Caxton's first-printed indulgence (and related ones), John Kay's "Siege of Rhodes," a Paston letter, and "The Turke and Sir Gawaine" for the ways they imagine "the Turk" and relations between Latin Christendom (especially the Hospitallers) and the growing Ottoman empire. Notes Chaucer's depictions of related concerns, identifies early uses of "poet laureate" and "renegade," and assesses "news reporting" and "contemporaneity" in late medieval media productions.
- Alternative Title
- The Presidential Address. The New Chaucer Society. Twenty-Second International Congress, July 11-14, 2022, Durham University, Durham, UK.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism