Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity

In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide sources and models for portraying the classical past and medieval modernity. In so doing, Edwards provides us with a valuable way of assessing Chaucer's analysis of late medieval culture.

• | Author: R. Edwards
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 17, 2001
• | Number of Pages: 205 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 033397008X
• | ISBN-13: 9780333970089