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<p>"Schildgen reads the <i>Canterbury Tales</i> as a work of complex speculation about identity, values, and social arrangements. Her book focuses on the margins where these concerns emerge with special clarity and urgency--in the tales conspicuously located outside a Christianized Western Europe."--Robert R. Edwards, Pennsylvania State University</p> <p>Brenda Deen Schildgen takes a new path in Chaucer studies by examining the <i>Canterbury Tales</i> set outside a Christian-dominated world--tales that pit Christian teleological ethics and history against the imagined beliefs and practices of Moslems, Jews, pagans, and Chaucer’s contemporaries, the Tartars.</p> <p>Schildgen contends that these tales--for example, the Knight’s, Squire’s, and Wife of Bath’s--deliberate on the grand rifts between the Christian or pagan past and Chaucer’s present and between other cultural worlds and the Latin Christian world. They offer philosophical views about what constitutes “wisdom” and “lawe” while exploring alternative moral attitudes to the Christian mainstream of Chaucer’s time. She argues that their presence in the <i>Canterbury Tales</i> testifies to Chaucer’s literary secularism and reveal

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Author

Schildgen, Brenda Deen , 1942-

Publisher

Gainesville: University Press of Florida

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813021072

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Religion

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14