Introduction : the sacred, the profane, and late Medieval literature -- Bathsheba in the eye of the beholder : artistic depiction from the late Middle Ages to Rembrandt / David Lyle Jeffrey -- Susanna's voice / Lynn Staley -- The ends of love : (meta)physical desire in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Jamie Fumo -- Troilus in the gutter / William Robins -- The suicide of the legend of good woman / Julia Marvin -- Sacred commerce : Chaucer's friar and the spirit of money / Robert Epstein -- How (not) to preach : Thomas Waleys and Chaucer's pardoner / Martin Camargo -- The radical, yet orthodox, Margery Kempe / Fiona Tolhurst -- Preface to Fleming / Steven Justice -- Bibliography of the scholarship of John V Fleming.
Summary:
"Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience. Using late Medieval English literature, including some of Chaucer's writings, these essays do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical. With essays by former students of John V. Fleming, the collection pays tribute to the Princeton University professor emeritus through wide-ranging scholarship and literary criticism"--Publisher description.
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