L'imagination dans la conception du Prologue general des Contes de Canterbury

Author / Editor
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.

Title
L'imagination dans la conception du Prologue general des Contes de Canterbury

Published
Andre Crepin, ed. L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains (Paris: Publications de l'Association des Medievistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur, 1991), pp. 93-105.

Description
To Chaucer's audience, the name "Eglentyne" suggested the lost clerk-knight debate "Hueline and Aiglantine." While Alice of Bath must have been the second lady of the debate, the other pilgrims stand for the qualities and defects of clerks and knights.

Alternative Title
L'imagination medievale: Chaucer et ses contemporains.
The Medieval Imagination.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Canterbury Tales--General.