Jankyn's Boethian Learning in the 'Summoner's Tale'

Author / Editor
Wright, Stephen K.

Title
Jankyn's Boethian Learning in the 'Summoner's Tale'

Published
English Language Notes 26:1 (1988): 4-7.

Description
Jankyn's scheme for the equal distribution of the fart in SumT may be derived from Boethius's theory of the propagation of sound waves in "De musica," a Boethian passage also echoed in HF.

Chaucer Subjects
Summoner and His Tale.
House of Fame.