Ethics and eventfulness in Middle English literature
Subtitle: singular fortunes
By: J. Allan Mitchell.
Series: The new Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Ethics in literature; Fortune in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On fortune, philosophy, and fidelity to the event; title: Love and ethics to come in Troilus and Criseyde; title: Consolations of Pandarus : The testament of love and The chaunce of the dyse; title: Gower's Confessio amantis and the nature of vernacular ethics; title: Telling fortunes in Lydgate's Fall of princes; title: Moral luck and Malory's Morte Darthur.