'Clericus Adam' and Chaucer's 'Adam Scriveyn'
- Author / Editor
- Kaske, R. E.
'Clericus Adam' and Chaucer's 'Adam Scriveyn'
- 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. 114-18.
- Description
- "Clericus Adam," a short anti-feminist poem from the twelfth century, makes one wonder whether Chaucer may not be playfully saying, "Look here, 'Clericus Adam', you little bungler, don't you disfigure my handiwork the way your namesake disfigured that of God." The comic allusion would seem to rest ultimately on the parallel between the artist as creator and God as Creator, an idea approximated by various medieval writers.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Adam Scriveyn.