Sacred and Secular Scripture: Authority and Interpretation in 'The House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Jeffrey, David Lyle.

Title
Sacred and Secular Scripture: Authority and Interpretation in 'The House of Fame'

Published
David Lyle Jeffrey, ed. Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1984), pp. 207-28.

Description
The Aeneas story as cliche is appropriate for the poem's subject: fame. The fame of Aeneas was important in Christian historiography, but ambivalent because of his betrayal of Dido. Biblical language and allusion rather than "the story of Troy or its panoply of typologies" point to the chief questions of HF.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Scriptural Tradition.