From the dust jacket: Individual chapters of Chaucer and the Mystics discuss the place of Chaucer's religious tales in the body of Middle English devotional prose, the similarities and differences between the careers of the Wife of Bath and of Margery Kempe, comic tales and the comic transformation of mystical themes and imagery, women's spirituality and the Prioress's Tale, gender issues arising from a comparison of Chaucer's tales about women with the writings of the mystics, and the silence attending Chaucer's Retraction.
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...written by one who was at his wit's end to find an original topic. As a medievalist with a special interest both in Chaucer and the mystics of the era, it was obvious to me that the author was bending the words of the latter to fit Chaucer's characters. Neither aspect, fascinating though both are, survived the operation.
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