TY - BOOK ID - 23031662 TI - Chaucer and Boccaccio : antiquy and modernity PY - 2002 SN - 033397008X 9780333970089 PB - Basingstoke New York Palgrave DB - UniCat KW - Aesthetics [Ancient] KW - Aesthetics [Medieval ] KW - Antieke esthetica KW - Esthetica [Middeleeuwse ] KW - Esthetica van de oudheid KW - Esthétique ancienne KW - Esthétique de l'antiquité KW - Esthétique médiévale KW - Intertextualiteit KW - Intertextuality KW - Intertextualité KW - Medieval aesthetics KW - Middeleeuwse esthetica KW - English poetry KW - Italian influences KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey KW - Knowledge KW - Literature KW - Sources KW - Boccaccio, Giovanni KW - Appreciation KW - England KW - Influence KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400) KW - Boccace (1313-1375) KW - Poésie anglaise KW - Esthétique antique KW - Savoir et érudition KW - Littérature KW - Appréciation KW - Angleterre (GB) KW - Influence italienne UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23031662 AB - In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invented two imaginative domains - antiquity and modernity - that proved crucial to his culture and to our subsequent understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements. This study shows how Chaucer's effort to imagine these two worlds grew out of a reading and rewriting of Boccaccio's work. The poems of Chaucer's artistic maturity are thus connected to literary tradition, and particularly the European vernacular, at the same time that they perform the cultural work of examining the mythic origins of medieval institutions and expressing the experience of social and historical change. Edwards provides us with a valuable way of approaching Chaucer's poetry and his complex vision of late medieval culture. ER -