Alastair Minnis: 4 books
Medieval Theory of Authorship
Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now...
Fallible Authors
Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial...
From Eden to Eternity
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate in paradise? And since people had no need for clothing, transportation, or food, what purpose did animals serve? Would carnivorous animals have preyed on other creatures? These were but a few of the...
by Alastair Minnis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the...