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Memento Legere: Out of Old Books Comes (Re)new(ed) Wisdom
(2021)
Abstract
This past spring semester, I had the good fortune to teach a dazzling work of late medieval literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It is a text that is fairly familiar but is usually confined to the walls of the classroom. That is unfortunate since art, especially the rich bounty of literature, is timeless and has always been a means for a conversation across the limitations of time and space, and The Canterbury Tales, it seems to me, is a literary masterpiece of the 14th century that resonates very much with our world today. It is, I would argue, a worthy vade mecum for our time as we wander into a new future and onto unspecified terrain.
Keywords
- Chaucer,
- Canterbury Tales
Disciplines
Publication Date
May 20, 2021
Citation Information
June-Ann Greeley. "Memento Legere: Out of Old Books Comes (Re)new(ed) Wisdom" (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/june-ann_greeley/36/