Sacred and profane in Chaucer and late medieval literature : essays in honour of John V. Fleming

Folger bibliographic ID: 244910
Folger call number: PR1933.R4 S33 2010
Folger holdings ID: 310145

With essays by former students of John V. Fleming, the collection pays tribute to the Princeton University professor emeritus through wide-ranging scholarship and literary criticism. Including reflections on depictions of Bathsheba, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, Chaucer's Pardoner, and Margery Kempe, these essays focus on literature while ranging into history, philosophy, and the visual arts. Taken together, the work suggests that the domain of the sacred, as perceived in the Middle Ages, can variously be seen as having a hierarchical or a complementary relationship to the things of this world."--pub. desc

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index Includes some text in Latin and Middle English

Contents

1. Introduction: The Sacred, the Profane, and Late Medieval Literature -- 2. Bathsheba in the Eye of the Beholder: Artistic Depiction from the Late Middle Ages to Rembrandt / David Lyle Jeffrey -- 3. Susanna's Voice / Lynn Staley -- 4. The Ends of Love: (Meta)physical Desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Jamie Fumo -- 5. Troilus in the Gutter / William Robins -- 6. The Suicide of the Legend of Good Woman / Julia Marvin -- 7. Sacred Commerce: Chaucer's Friar and the Spirit of Money / Robert Epstein -- 8. How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer's Pardoner / Martin Camargo -- 9. The Radical, Yet Orthodox, Margery Kempe / Fiona Tolhurst -- 10. Preface to Fleming / Steven Justice -- 11. Bibliography of the Scholarship of John V Fleming

Extended title: Sacred and profane in Chaucer and late medieval literature : essays in honour of John V. Fleming / edited by Robert Epstein and William Robins

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 English literature Holy, The, in literature Secularism in literature

subject: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
subject: Chaucer, Geoffrey, m. 1400
associated with: Fleming, John V
associated with: Robins, William Randolph, 1964-
associated with: Epstein, Robert W. (Robert William), 1964-