Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun

by John M. Fyler

Book Overview

Medieval commentaries on the origin and history of language used biblical history, from Creation to the Tower of Babel, as their starting-point, and described the progressive impairment of an originally perfect language. Biblical and classical sources raised questions for both medieval poets and commentators about the nature of language, its participation in the Fall, and its possible redemption. John M. Fyler focuses on how three major poets - Chaucer,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521147719
• ISBN13: 9780521147712
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"