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The Canterbury tales and the good society / Paul A. Olson.
- Title
- The Canterbury tales and the good society / Paul A. Olson.
- Author
- Olson, Paul A.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR1875.S63 O4 1986 | Off-site |
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- xix, 323 p., [48] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
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- Project Muse UPCC books
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I: Chaucer, social theory, and fourteenth-century history -- Introduction. On looking at the meaning of Chaucer's language -- 1. The general prologue, the three-estate theory, and the "age and body" of the time -- Part II: The Canterbury tales on temporal lords: Tales of the court and country -- 2. The order of the passion and internal order: The tales of the knight, the miller, and the reeve -- 3. The lawyer's tale and the history of Christian English law -- 4. Chaucer on temporal power and art: Thopas and Melibee -- Part III: The Canterbury tales on the spiritual power -- 5. Stratford's nunnery, sapience, and monasticism's critical role -- 6. Monasticism's royal claim: Uthred, Wyclif, and the realms beyond tragedy -- 7. The hierarchy's keys: Summmoner, pardoner and the abuse of love -- 8. Summoner wrath on friar perfection: The apostolate of Friar John and Lay Brother Thomas -- 9. The sect of the wife of Bath and the quest for perfection: The wife, the merchant, and the franklin and their new materialism -- In conclusion: The parson's tale and reason's reconstruction.
- ISBN
- 0691066930 (alk. paper) :
- LCCN
- ^^^86042852^
- OCLC
- 14716678
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library