Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature : Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (247 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Sacred, the Profane, and Late Medieval Literature -- 2 Bathsheba in the Eye of the Beholder: Artistic Depiction from the Late Middle Ages to Rembrandt -- 3 Susanna's Voice -- 4 The Ends of Love: (Meta)physical Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde -- 5 Troilus in the Gutter -- 6 The Suicide of the Legend of Good Women -- 7 Sacred Commerce: Chaucer, Friars, and the Spirit of Money -- 8 How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer's Pardoner -- Appendix: Thomas Waleys, 'On the Quality of the Preacher': Chapter 1 of On the Method for Composing Sermons -- 9 The Radical, Yet Orthodox, Margery Kempe -- 10 Preface to Fleming -- 11 Bibliography of the Scholarship of John v. Fleming -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Using late Medieval English literature the essays in this collection do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey,--1400-Criticism and interpretation. English literature-Middle English, 1100-1500-History and criticism. Holy, The, in literature. Secularism in literature.