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Law and Religion in Chaucer's England - Variorum Collected Studies Henry Ansgar Kelly 1st edition
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Law and Religion in Chaucer's England - Variorum Collected Studies
Henry Ansgar Kelly
These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of the Canterbury Tales. Topics include the canon law of incest (consanguinity, affinity, spiritual kinship), the prosecution of sexual offences and regulation of prostitution (especially in the Stews of Southwark), legal opinions about wife-beating, and the laws of nature concerning gender distinction (focusing on Chaucer's Pardoner) and the technicalities of castration. Sacramental and devotional practices are discussed, especially dealing with confession and penitence and the Mass. Chaucer's Prioress serves as the starting point for a treatment of regulations of nuns in medieval England and also for the presence, real and virtual, of Jews and Saracens (Muslims and pagans) in England and conversion efforts of the time, as well as sympathetic or antipathetic attitudes towards non-Christians. Included is a case study on the legend of St Cecilia in Chaucer and elsewhere, and as patron of music; and a discussion of canonistic opinion on the licit limits of medicinal magic (in connection with the ministrations of John the Carpenter in the Miller's Tale).
416 pages, NO
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 10, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138375819 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 416 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 770 g |
| Language | English |
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