Medieval Readers and Ancient Texts: The Influence of the Past

Author / Editor
Baswell, Christopher C.

Title
Medieval Readers and Ancient Texts: The Influence of the Past

Published
Envoi 1 (1988): 1-22.

Description
This review article assesses four recent books on how the Middle Ages responded to classical literature: Ralph Hexter's "Ovid and Medieval Schooling," the essay collection "Lectures medievales de Virgile," Jean-Charles Huchet's "Le Roman medieval" (mainly a psychoanalytic reading of the "Eneas"), and Winthrop Wetherbee's "Chaucer and the Poets."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.