The Matter of Araby in Medieval England

Author / Editor
Metzlitzki, Dorothee.

Title
The Matter of Araby in Medieval England

Published
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Description
English scholars played an important part in transmitting Arabic learning to Europe. The "matter of Araby" may be set alongside the matters of Troy and Britain as an impulse in medieval English literature. It appears in Chaucer's MLT, Th, and the astronomical works.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.