Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender

This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer''s writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour generally signified the study of the morality of attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not gender neutral: it presupposed that certain virtues and certain failings were largely gender-specific. Alcuin Blamires - mainly concentrating on The...