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Chaucer and Becket's mother : The man of law's tale, conversion, and race in the Middle Ages / by Meriem Pagès.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pagès, Meriem, author.
- Series:
- Medieval media cultures.
- Medieval media and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170--Family.
- Thomas.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 Man of law's tale.
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Women in literature.
- Conversion in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Race awareness--England--History--To 1500.
- Race awareness.
- Christian saints--Legends--History and criticism.
- Christian saints.
- Saints in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 106 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket's martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II's knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket's father and Christianity. Pagès uses this wholly fictional legend about the saint to examine the place and function of conversion and mission in 'The Man of Law's Tale', juxtaposing the tale with the legend about Becket's mother to assess the power (or lack thereof) of baptism in late medieval English works. This new comparative study thus provides productive insights into the complexity of the emergence of the concept of race in medieval English culture and literature.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction DESIRE, ANXIETY, AND CONVERSION
- Chapter 2 THOMAS BECKET’S MOTHER
- Chapter 3 THE BECKET LEGEND, THE MAN OF LAW’S TALE, AND CONVERSION
- Chapter 4 THE MAN OF LAW’S TALE IN CONTEXT
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781802701043
- 1802701044
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