Free Download Nancy Mason Bradbury, "Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales"
English | ISBN: 0271096888 | 2024 | 220 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 11 MB
In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer’s contemporaries, these tiny embedded microgenres could be potent, disruptive, and sometimes even incendiary.