Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: January 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9780804736619
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Italy; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Semiotics & Theory
First sentence: Chaucer's encounter with Italy has long been romanticized as the crossing of an invisible but magical boundary (one that inevitably, if not explicitly, evokes the imaginary medieval/Renaissance divide).