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(2017) Chaucer and the child, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The infants-of-Eden debate outlined at the outset of this chapter provides the framework for Chaucer's depiction of the child between birth and seven years and addresses the tensions between innocence and experience in addition to questions raised in legal venues about whether young children were to be held culpable for their actions. Chaucer's infants are considered at pivotal moments in their lives and within their narrative circumstances. Included here are readings of the scenes of the infant eaten by a sow on the Temple of Mars in the Knight's Tale, the cradled infant in the Reeve's Tale, the dead child of the Summoner's Tale, the Hugolino boys of the Monk's Tale, Griselda's children of the Clerk's Tale, and the Prioress's litel clergeon.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-43637-5_3
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Salisbury, E. (2017). Infantasy and the silent child, in Chaucer and the child, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 71-107.
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