"The taint of a fault" : purgatory, relativism and humanism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Far from being a poem about the chivalric code, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is essentially concerned with religion. The Romance genre is used to reveal the shortcomings of the Church in the late fourteenth century, just as it begins to feel the first effects of early Renaissance humanism, and of...
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Universidad de Alicante
2004-11-01
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| Series: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses |
| Online Access: | https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2004-n17-the-taint-of-a-fault-purgatory-relativism-and-humanism-in-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight |