The Mediating Vision: Patronage and Literary Tradition in Guillaume de Machaut and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Davis, Stephen Brian.

Title
The Mediating Vision: Patronage and Literary Tradition in Guillaume de Machaut and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 1154A.

Description
Both the historical basis for BD and its relation to Machaut's narratives have posed problems, but the dream-vision form can resolve them. Whereas Machaut used it to divide himself from his patrons, Chaucer employed it to indicate their "shared mortality."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.