The Magic of Machinery: A Context for Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Braswell, Mary Flowers.
The Magic of Machinery: A Context for Chaucer's 'Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- Mosaic 18 (1985): 101-10.
- Description
- Braswell surveys the mechanical devices in late-medieval culture and traces their origins in Continental and Arabic lands. She asserts that Chaucer was knowledgeable about machinery and its prevalence and that the magic tricks in FranT correspond to such contemporary automates. She speculates that the tale might have been performed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.