The CANTERBURY TALES and the Good Society (eBook)

Paul A. Olson (Autor)

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2014
394 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5831-6 (ISBN)

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Paul Olson argues that Chaucer's narratives emerge from his deep concern about the crises of late fourteenth-century England and his vision of the renewal of that troubled society through the ideal of parlement, the various orders of society speaking together, and through a perfective religious discipline.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Absalom • Allegory • Anathema • Anglo-Saxon Christianity • Antipope • Apostolic poverty • Archdeacon • Art for art's sake • Babio • Biblical Authority • Boethius • Canticle • Chivalric order • Church Fathers • Cleanness • Clergy • Concupiscence • Confessio Amantis • Council of Constance • Courtly Love • divine law • divine providence • Ecclesiastical History of the English People • english poetry • Epicureanism • Fabliau • flattery • Franciscans • François Rabelais • friar • Geoffrey (archbishop of York) • Gesta Romanorum • Giovanni Boccaccio • Henry Knighton • humility • Iconology • indulgence • Irony • Jean de Meun • John Lydgate • John of Salisbury • Jovinian • Lay brother • Les belles lettres • Literature • Lollardy • Monasticism • Nicholas of Lyra • Order of Saint Benedict • Paladin • parlement • Parody • Peace treaty • Penitential • Philosophy • poena • Poetry • Policraticus • Politique • predestination • Puritans • Quia Emptores • Radix malorum est cupiditas • Regular clergy • rhetoric • Saint Boniface • Satire • SCHOLASTICISM • Secularism • Secularization • Simony • Sir Thopas • Spiritual Canticle • Spirituality • Summa Theologica • Superiority (short story) • Temporal power (papal) • Teutonic Order • The Canterbury tales • The City of God (book) • The Franklin's Tale • The Friar's Tale • The Golden Bough • The Grand Inquisitor • The Knight's Tale • The Manciple's Tale • The Merchant's Tale • The Miller's Tale • The Monk's Tale • The Nun's Priest's Tale • The Parson's Tale • The Prioress's Tale • The Reeve's Tale • The Shipman's Tale • The Summoner • The Summoner's Tale • The Wife of Bath's Tale • Truth and Justice • Vox Clamantis • Wisdom Tradition
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5831-3 / 1400858313
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5831-6 / 9781400858316