Jankyn's Boethian Learning in the 'Summoner's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Wright, Stephen K.
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.
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