Architectural Portraiture in Chaucer's House of Fame

Author / Editor
Braswell, Mary Flowers.

Title
Architectural Portraiture in Chaucer's House of Fame

Published
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1981): 101-12

Description
Far from being "entirely tropological" or imaginative, the descriptions of the Temple of Venus and the House of Fame and Rumor accurately reflect the forms and details of contemporary structures. As Clerk of the Works and perhaps an acquaintance of Henry Yevele, Chaucer would have had opportunity to observe fourteenth-century architecture.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.
Parliament of Fowls.