Matheolus, Chaucer, and the Wife of Bath
- Author / Editor
- Thundy, Zacharias P.
Matheolus, Chaucer, and the Wife of Bath
- Published
- Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 24-56.
- Description
- An important immediate source of Chaucer's work is in the Latin "Lamentations of Matheolus," a thirteenth-century French cleric, whose work Jean le Fevre translated into French and expanded in the fourteenth century. In excess of one hundred parallels between "Lamentations" and WBP/WBT are proposed.
- In French and in Latin the work survives in fourteenth-century mss in the British Library. It is also a source for Deschamps' "Miroir de Mariage," not published until after 1406, and obviously not a source for Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.