Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitc

This study explores how fortune functions in relation to wider concerns about ethics and eventfulness in the works of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory.

Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitc

This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examine

Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a litera