The Matter of Araby in Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Metzlitzki, Dorothee.
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.