How Long to Read Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

How Long Does it Take to Read Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 5 minutes to read Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Brenda Deen Schildgen

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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"Schildgen reads the Canterbury Tales as a work of complex speculation about identity, values, and social arrangements. Her book focuses on the margins where these concerns emerge with special clarity and urgency--in the tales conspicuously located outside a Christianized Western Europe."--Robert R. Edwards, Pennsylvania State University Brenda Deen Schildgen takes a new path in Chaucer studies by examining the Canterbury Tales set outside a Christian-dominated world--tales that pit Christian teleological ethics and history against the imagined beliefs and practices of Moslems, Jews, pagans, and Chaucer's contemporaries, the Tartars. Schildgen contends that these tales--for example, the Knight's, Squire's, and Wife of Bath's--deliberate on the grand rifts between the Christian or pagan past and Chaucer's present and between other cultural worlds and the Latin Christian world. They offer philosophical views about what constitutes "wisdom" and "lawe" while exploring alternative moral attitudes to the Christian mainstream of Chaucer's time. She argues that their presence in the Canterbury Tales testifies to Chaucer's literary secularism and reveals his expansive narrative interest in the intellectual and cultural worlds outside Christianity. Making impressive use of medieval intellectual history, Schildgen shows that Chaucer framed his tales with the diverse philosophies, religions, and ethics that coexisted with Christian ideology in the late Middle Ages, a framework that emerges as political and not metaphysical, putting these beliefs deliberatively in the context of literary discourse, where their validity can be accepted or dismissed and, most important, debated. Brenda Deen Schildgen teaches comparative literature, medieval studies, and English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of several books, including Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark, which won a Choice Award for most outstanding academic book in 1999, and is the coeditor of The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales.

How long is Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Brenda Deen Schildgen is 183 pages long, and a total of 46,299 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 13 minutes to read Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales aloud.

What Reading Level is Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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