INTERTEXTUAL DIALOGUES BETWEEN MEDIEVAL ALLEGORY AND RENAISSANCE HUMANISM IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Keywords:
Medieval Allegory; Renaissance Humanism; Intertextuality; Spenser; Milton; Chaucer; The Faerie Queene; Paradise Lost; Moral Philosophy; English Literature; Classical Influence; Christian Symbolism.Abstract
This article explores how medieval allegory and Renaissance humanism connect and influence each other in English literature. It shows that writers like Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton reshaped medieval allegorical traditions to express humanist ideas about reason, morality, and individual freedom. Rather than breaking from he past, English literature from the 14th to 17th centuries reflects a continuing dialogue between medieval spirituality and Renaissance humanism.
References
1. Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Princeton University Press, (1953).
2. C.S. Lewis. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. Oxford University Press, 1936.
3. Greenblatt, Stephen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. University of Chicago Press, 1980.
4. Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. 1590–1596.
5. Milton, John. Paradise Lost. (1667).
6. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. ca. (1387).
7. Langland, William. Piers Plowman. ca. (1370–1390).
8. Erasmus, Desiderius. The Praise of Folly. (1511).
9. Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni. Oration on the Dignity of Man. (1486).
10. Burrow, Colin. Renaissance Literature and Its Classical Contexts. Oxford University Press, (1995).
