'Large and Fre': The Influence of Middle English Romance on Chaucer's Chivalric Language
- Author / Editor
- Kellogg, Judith L.
'Large and Fre': The Influence of Middle English Romance on Chaucer's Chivalric Language
- Published
- Allegorica 9 (1987-88): 221-48.
- Description
- We do not understand how the Franklin views the concept of "gentilesse" that informs his moral vision. Kellogg compares the Franklin's use of key chivalric terminology to its uses in Middle English romance, thereby illuminating the Franklin, FranT, and Chaucer's manipulation of conventional language.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.