Chivalry and the Wise Watchman: A Study of Patience, Penance, and the Homeward Journey in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author/Editor
- Peck, Russell A.
- Title
- Chivalry and the Wise Watchman: A Study of Patience, Penance, and the Homeward Journey in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Peck, Russell A. "Chivalry and the Wise Watchman: A Study of Patience, Penance, and the Homeward Journey in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde." In Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society: Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper. Ed. Craig M. Nakashian and Daniel P. Franke. (Boston: Brill, 2017). Pp. 344-67.
- Review
- Peck explores notions of moral worthiness and penitential vigilance expressed in late-medieval vernacular literature, arguing that they developed out of earlier knightly ideals and practices, laid out by Richard W. Kaeuper in "Holy Warrior" (2009). Treating Harry Bailly and his relation to the Parson in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" most extensively, Peck also draws on Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde, and other works by Chretién de Troyes, Dante, Langland, and Gower, offering commentary on knights and mercantile trade in "Mirour de l'Omme" (349-50) and, in the same work, the need expressed for "vigilant analysis of how we see and don't see" as part of the penitential diagnosis of sin (355). [MA. Copyright. The John Gower Society. eJGN 39.2]
- Date
- 2017
- Gower Subjects
- Mirour de l'Omme (Speculum Meditantis)