Medieval Beasts and Modern Cages: The Making of Meaning in Fables and Bestiaries
- Author / Editor
- Henderson, Arnold Clayton.
Medieval Beasts and Modern Cages: The Making of Meaning in Fables and Bestiaries
- Published
- PMLA 97 (1982): 40-49.
- Description
- Medieval fable cannot be read as though each animal or figure held a fixed allegorical meaning. NPT, for instance, could signify as many meanings as subsequent readers have postulated.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.