Wise Birds: Chaucer's Crow and Machaut

Author / Editor
Rehyansky, Katherine Heinrichs.

Title
Wise Birds: Chaucer's Crow and Machaut

Published
Tennessee Philological Bulletin 29 (1992): 23-33.

Description
ManT is central to understanding the CT. Its primary theme is a warning against the danger of intentional blindness to sin or vice. Through comparison with Machaut's "Voir dit," we see that the bird in ManT illustrates the folly of self-deception.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.