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Megan Murton's very insightful and helpful book is a study of medieval subjectivity. * SPECULUM * This adroit study reveals new pathways around more than a few critical minefields-not least that of ""Chaucer as a religious poet""-and its emphasis on Chaucer's creative piety forms a welcome intervention in current historicist models of Chaucer's poetics and late medieval lay spirituality alike. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER * In examining Christian and pagan prayers alongside each other, Chaucer's Prayers cuts across an assumed division between the 'religious' and 'secular' writings within Chaucer's corpus. Rather, it emphasizes continuities and approaches prayer as part of Chaucer's broader experimentation with literary voice. It also places Chaucer in his devotional context and foregrounds how pious practices intersect with and shape his poetic practices. These insights challenge a received view of Chaucer as an essentially secular poet and shed new light on his poetry's relationship to religion. * Studi Medievali * Murton skillfully unveils the potential of reading Chaucer as a religious poet involved with the literary nature of devotional writings and the devotional nature of literature. [...] Chaucer's Prayers' significant contribution returns our attention to Chaucer as both a secular and religious poet. -- Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures

Megan Murton's very insightful and helpful book is a study of medieval subjectivity. * SPECULUM * This adroit study reveals new pathways around more than a few critical minefields-not least that of Chaucer as a religious poet -and its emphasis on Chaucer's creative piety forms a welcome intervention in current historicist models of Chaucer's poetics and late medieval lay spirituality alike. * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER * In examining Christian and pagan prayers alongside each other, Chaucer's Prayers cuts across an assumed division between the 'religious' and 'secular' writings within Chaucer's corpus. Rather, it emphasizes continuities and approaches prayer as part of Chaucer's broader experimentation with literary voice. It also places Chaucer in his devotional context and foregrounds how pious practices intersect with and shape his poetic practices. These insights challenge a received view of Chaucer as an essentially secular poet and shed new light on his poetry's relationship to religion. * Studi Medievali * Murton skillfully unveils the potential of reading Chaucer as a religious poet involved with the literary nature of devotional writings and the devotional nature of literature. [...] Chaucer's Prayers' significant contribution returns our attention to Chaucer as both a secular and religious poet. -- Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures

In examining Christian and pagan prayers alongside each other, Chaucer's Prayers cuts across an assumed division between the 'religious' and 'secular' writings within Chaucer's corpus. Rather, it emphasizes continuities and approaches prayer as part of Chaucer's broader experimentation with literary voice. It also places Chaucer in his devotional context and foregrounds how pious practices intersect with and shape his poetic practices. These insights challenge a received view of Chaucer as an essentially secular poet and shed new light on his poetry's relationship to religion. * Studi Medievali *

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MEGAN MURTON is Assistant Professor of English at The Catholic University of America.

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