Chaucer and Lists of Trees

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero.

Title
Chaucer and Lists of Trees

Published
Reading Medieval Studies 2 (1976): 28-44.

Description
A detailed, tabulated comparison of tree-lists in Chaucer (Rom 1379-86, PF 176-82, KnT 2063-65) with those in his sources shows Chaucer becoming more familiar with a technical vocabulary, and more willing to adapt and augment his immediate sources with names and qualities drawn from ancillary texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Romaunt of the Rose.
Parliament of Fowls.
Knight and His Tale.