False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode by E. Allen

False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode

New Middle Ages

E. Allen

225 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the stron...

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