'Fals Apparences': Satan and Chaucer's 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Chiappelli, Carolyn.

Title
'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