Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship.
- Author / Editor
- Fonzo, Kimberly.
Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship.
- Published
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
- Physical Description
- viii, 187 pp.
- Description
- Examines how Langland, Gower, and Chaucer--who approached Ricardian prophetic discourse in different ways--were later co-opted as prophets of various events and outlooks: Langland foretelling the English Reformation, Gower predicting the deposition of Richard II, and Chaucer anticipating "modern rational scepticism." Chapter 4 focuses on how, in HF, Chaucer's adaptation of the dream-vision form and the Dantesque role of biblical prophet underlies understanding of him as harbinger of skepticism and how "various editorial missteps and . . . deceptions" led to the apocryphal "Chaucer's Prophecy" being considered evidence that the poet was "ahead of his time."
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame