'Fals Apparences': Satan and Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Author / Editor
- Chiappelli, Carolyn.
'Fals Apparences': Satan and Chaucer's 'House of Fame'
- Published
- Proceedings of the International Patristic, Mediaeval, & Renaissance Conference 4 (1979): 1107-14.
- Description
- The motif of "fals apparences" is a unifying factor of HF. The eagle as sophist or false philosopher, in seizing the narrator as prey, is reminiscent of Satan as fowler, or Dante's Gerione, emblem of fraud.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame