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Chaucer and the Mystics: The Canterbury Tales and the Genre of Devotional Prose

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Contextualizing The Canterbury Tales in terms Chaucer himself valorized in his Retraction, this book describes analogues among the five great Middle English mystics (Rolle, Hilton, Julian, the Cloud-author, and Kempe), with attention to Chaucer's sometimes comic, sometimes serious, purposes.

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Chaucer and the Mystics: The Canterbury Tales and the Genre of Devotional Prose 1995, Bucknell University Press

ISBN-13: 9780838752883

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