Book
Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England
(2005)
Abstract
This book surveys the appearances of righteous heathens or virtuous pagans in travel literature, chronicles, romances, and sermons, as well as in the work of Langland, Chaucer and Gower. Grady also illustrates the way these figures have been used to explore a variety of historical, cultural and formal literary issues.
Keywords
- antiquity,
- Chaucer,
- England,
- English literature,
- India,
- Indian,
- literature,
- Medieval Literature,
- medieval texts,
- Middle Ages
Disciplines
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan, New York
ISBN
978-1-349-73363-7
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-12367-1
Citation Information
Frank Grady. Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England. (2005) - 214 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/frank-grady/11/