The Saints and the Problem of Fame in the 'House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Meade, Br. Robert.

Title
The Saints and the Problem of Fame in the 'House of Fame'

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 84 (1983): 201-05.

Description
Allusions to several Christian saints in HF show that, contrary to the arbitrariness of Fame's judgment, the "natural consequence of meritorious action" is "recognition both worldly and other-worldly."

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame