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Retrospective prophecy and medieval English authorship

Retrospective prophecy and medieval English authorship

by Fonzo, Kimberly

0 Type: Book

"This study argues that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in both medieval authorial self-representation and the subsequent intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works by others. Because prophecy is always a second hand authority, r…

Retrospective prophecy and medieval English authorship

Retrospective prophecy and medieval English authorship

by Fonzo, Kimberly

0 Type: Book

"This study argues that prophecy emerged and recurred as an important theme in both medieval authorial self-representation and the subsequent intellectual and critical assessment of medieval authors and their works by others. Because prophecy is always a second hand authority, r…

The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"

by Malek Zuraikat

0 Type: Thesis

This study reads some Middle English poetry in terms of crusading, and it argues that the most prominent English poets, namely Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of…

Figural mode and affective response in "Piers Plowman"

by M. Yoon

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The appearances of Piers in Piers Plowman are most appropriately explained by a "figural" perspective. Piers as a plowman in the Visio, firmly rooted in the contemporary socio-economic reality, is a "true" human and Christian, potentially an imago dei, and a quasi-Old Testament …