Title
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming
Role
Co-editors: Will Robins and Robert Epstein
Contributing authors: Will Robins and Robert Epstein
Files
Document Type
Book Contribution
Description/Summary
In addition to co-editing, Robert Epstein and Will Robins are contributing authors, “Introduction: The Sacred, the Profane, and Late Medieval Literature" and Robert Epstein is a contributing author, “Sacred Commerce: Chaucer’s Friar and the Spirit of Money”.
Book description:
Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience. Using late Medieval English literature, including some of Chaucer's writings, these essays do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical. 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.
ISBN
9781442640818
Publication Date
2010
Publication Information
Robins, Will, and Robert Epstein. “Introduction: The Sacred, the Profane, and Late Medieval Literature" In Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming. Will Robins and Robert Epstein, Eds., University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Epstein, Robert. “Sacred Commerce: Chaucer’s Friar and the Spirit of Money.” In Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming. Will Robins and Robert Epstein, Eds., University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Recommended Citation
Robins, Will and Epstein, Robert, "Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming" (2010). English Faculty Book Gallery. 75.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/75
Comments
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