The Nobility of Soul: Uncharted Echoes of the Peraldean Tradition in Late Medieval German Literature

Author / Editor
McDonald, William C.

Title
The Nobility of Soul: Uncharted Echoes of the Peraldean Tradition in Late Medieval German Literature

Published
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 60 (1986): 543-71.

Description
ParsT's statement of the medieval idea (of Peraldus) that true virtue derives from nobility of the spirit rather than from nobility of birth is examined in relation to its treatment by the late-medieval German authors Heinrich von Langenstein and Michel Beheim.

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.