{"product_id":"sacred-and-profane-in-chaucer-robert-epstein-9781442640818","title":"Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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. Including reflections on depictions of Bathsheba, \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLegend of Good Women\u003c\/em\u003e, Chaucer's Pardoner, and Margery Kempe, these essays focus on literature while ranging into history, philosophy, and the visual arts. Taken together, the work suggests that the domain of the sacred, as perceived in the Middle Ages, can variously be seen as having a hierarchical or a complementary relationship to the things of this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Epstein,Will Robins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442640812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442640818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Robert Epstein","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453635965183,"sku":"9781442640818","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7adc3394-15d4-4b17-818f-eea62b877714.jpg?v=1777301332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacred-and-profane-in-chaucer-robert-epstein-9781442640818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}