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Chaucer and the Mystics: The Canterbury Tales and the Genre of Devotional Prose
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780838752883
 
from Bucknell Univ Pr (June 1, 1995)
9780838752883 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $37.50
About: 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 sometimes comic, sometimes serious, purposes.