UID:
edocfu_9961009572202883
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 216 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-48900-6
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9786613584236
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1-84615-886-9
Series Statement:
Christianity and culture : issues in teaching and research, [4]
Content:
How do critics, religious scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view Chaucer's relationship to religion? And how can he be taught and studied in an increasingly secular and multi-cultural environment? The essays here, on (the Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, lyrics and dream poems, aim to provide an orientation on the study of the the religions, the religious traditions and the religious controversies of his era - and to offer new perspectives upon them. Using a variety of theoretical, critical and historical approaches, they deal with topics that include Chaucer in relation to lollardy, devotion to the saint and the Virgin Mary, Judaism and Islam, and the Bible; attitudes towards sex, marriage and love; ethics, both Christian and secular; ideas on death and the Judgement; Chaucer's handling of religious genres such as hagiography and miracles, as well as other literary traditions - romance, ballade, dream poetry, fablliaux and the middle ages' classical inheritance - which pose challenges to religious world views. These are complemented by discussion of a range of issues related to teaching Chaucer in Britain and America today, drawn from practical experience. Contributors: Anthony Bale, Alcuin Blamires, Laurel Broughton, Helen Cooper, Graham D. Caie, Roger Dalrymple, Dee Dyas, D. Thomas Hanks Jr., Stephen Knight, Carl Phelpstead, Helen Phillips, David Raybin, Sherry Reames, Jill Rudd.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Mar 2023).
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Frontcover; CONTENTS; GENERAL EDITORS' FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION BY HELEN COOPER; Contexts and Critical Approaches; 1 Love, Marriage, Sex, Gender; 2 Chaucer and the Bible; 3 Chaucer and Lollardy; 4 'Toward the fen': Church and Churl in Chaucer's Fabliaux; 5 'A maner Latyn corrupt': Chaucer and the Absent Religions; 6 The Matter of Chaucer: Chaucer and the Boundaries of Romance; 7 Mary, Sanctity and Prayers to Saints: Chaucer and Late-Medieval Piety
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8 'Th'ende is every tales strengthe': Contextualizing Chaucerian Perspectives on Death and Judgement9 Chaucer and the Saints: Miracles and Voices of Faith; 10 Chaucer and the Communities of Pilgrimage; 11 Classicizing Christianity in Chaucer's Dream Poems: The Book of the Duchess, Book of Fame and Parliament of Fowls; 12 Morality in the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's lyrics and the Legend of Good Women; Teaching Chaucer Today; 13 'To demen by interrogaciouns': Accessing the Christian Context of the Canterbury Tales with Enquiry-Based Learning
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14 'Gladly wolde [they] lerne [?]': US Students and the Chaucer Class15 Teaching Teachers: Chaucer, Ethics and Romance; 16 Reflections on Teaching Chaucer and Religion: The Nun's Priest's Tale and the Man of Law's Tale; INDEX; Backcover
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-229-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846158865
