The Orient in Chaucer and medieval romance
A study of romance and the Orient in Chaucer and in anonymous popular metrical romances.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780859917957, 0859917959
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Introduction: Romance and the Orient
Mercantilism and faith in the Eastern Mediterranean: Chaucer's Man of Law's tale, Boccaccio's Decameron 5, 2, and Gower's Tale of Constance
Two Oriental queens from Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: Cleopatra and Dido
Chaucer's Squire's Tale: content and structure
A question of incest, the double, and the theme of East and West: The middle English romance of Floris and Blauncheflur
Le Bone Florence of Rome and the East