The Dialectic of 'The Book of the Duchess' and 'The Parliament of Fowls': A Movement Toward the Fifteenth Century

Author / Editor
Pigott, Margaret B.

Title
The Dialectic of 'The Book of the Duchess' and 'The Parliament of Fowls': A Movement Toward the Fifteenth Century

Published
Fifteenth-Century Studies 5 (1982): 167-89.

Description
BD and PF shift from "belief to skepticism in Chaucer's attitude toward the three principal ways of arriving at truth--religious experience, written authorities, and revelations of dreams."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Parliament of Fowls.