Honors Program
Midway Honors
Date of Award
5-2019
Thesis Professor(s)
Joshua S. Reid
Thesis Professor Department
<--College of Arts and Sciences-->
Thesis Reader(s)
Brian J. Maxson
Abstract
This thesis compares the modes of satire utilized by Dante in the Divine Comedy and Chaucer in theCanterbury Tales, and considers the direct and indirect historical and religious influencers which impacted each author’s satirical style.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Carter, Kendra Makenzie, "Necessity Rather than Influence: The Use of Satirical Elements by Dante Alighieri and Geoffrey Chaucer as a Result of the Social Conditions During the Middle Ages" (2019). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 486. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/486
Copyright
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