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Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature

Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature

J. Mitchell

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2009
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Estudios literarios: clásicos, primitivos y medievales
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9781403974426

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Introduction: Conceptial Personae On Fortune, Philosophy and Fidelity to the Event Love and Ethics to come in Troilus and Criseyde Consolations of Pandarus: The Testament of Love and The Chaunce of the Dyse Gower’s Confessio Amantis and the Nature of Vernacular Ethics Telling Fortunes in Lydgate’s Fall of Princes Moral Luck and Malory’s Morte d’arthur

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