'Partriches Wynges': A Note on 'Hous of Fame,' 1391-92
- Author / Editor
- Newman, Francis X.
'Partriches Wynges': A Note on 'Hous of Fame,' 1391-92
- Published
- Mediaevalia 6 (1980): 231-38.
- Description
- The "partridge wings" at the end of the "pictura" of Fame result not from error but from Chaucer's following the commentary on the "Metamorphoses" in "Ovide moralise," where Perdix (partridge) represents a clever but deceitful craftsman and Daedalus the type of the wise man. "Partriches wynges" is a precise iconographic gesture, implying the emptiness of Fame and the verbal arts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.