Chaucer and the Mystics: The Canterbury Tales and the Genre of Devotional Prose by Robert Boenig, Ruth Y. Jenkins

Chaucer and the Mystics: The Canterbury Tales and the Genre of Devotional Prose

Robert Boenig, Ruth Y. Jenkins

231 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

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Contextualizing The Canterbury Tales in terms Chaucer himself valorized in his Retraction, this book describes analogues among the five great Middle English mystics (Rolle, Hilton, Julian, the Cloud-author, and Kempe), with attention to Chaucer's ...

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