چاسر و مادر بکت: 'داستان مرد قانون'، تبدیل و نژاد در قرون وسطی

Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket’s martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II’s knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket’s father and Christianity. Pagès uses this wholly fictional legend about the saint to examine the place and function of conversion and mission in __, juxtaposing the tale with the legend about Becket’s mother to assess the power (or lack thereof) of baptism in late medieval English works. This new comparative study thus provides productive insights into the complexity of the emergence of the concept of race in medieval English culture and literature.__ Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket's martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II's knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket's father and Christianity. Pagès uses this wholly fictional legend about the saint to examine the place and function of conversion and mission in The Man of Law's Tale, juxtaposing the tale with the legend about Becket's mother to assess the power (or lack thereof) of baptism in late medieval English works. This new comparative study thus provides productive insights into the complexity of the emergence of the concept of race in medieval English culture and literature. CONTENTS 5 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9 Introduction DESIRE, ANXIETY, AND CONVERSION 11 Introduction DESIRE, ANXIETY, AND CONVERSION 23 Chapter 2 THOMAS BECKET’S MOTHER 45 Chapter 3 THE BECKET LEGEND, THE MAN OF LAW’S TALE, AND CONVERSION 71 Chapter 4 THE MAN OF LAW’S TALE IN CONTEXT 87 CONCLUSION 101 BIBLIOGRAPHY 109 INDEX 115