Chaucer & Pagan Antiquity

by Alastair J. Minnis

Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central to our understanding of the texts. Chaucer's two great pagan poems, Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, belong to the literary genre known as the romance of antiquity' (which first appeard in the mid 12th century), in which the ancient pagan world is shown on its own terms, without the blatant Christian bias...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859910989
• ISBN13: 9780859910989
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"