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Chaucer and Boccaccio : Antiquity and Modernity by Robert R. Edwards is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Chaucer and Boccaccio : Antiquity and Modernity about?
In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide sources and models for portraying the classical past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing C
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Robert R. Edwards
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349429158
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Poetry, Historical & Comparative, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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