Some Latin Sources of the Nonnes Preest on Dreams
- Author / Editor
- Pratt, Robert A.
Some Latin Sources of the Nonnes Preest on Dreams
- Published
- Speculum 52 (1977): 538-70.
- Description
- A detailed examination of Chaucer's principal direct source on significative dreams, Robert Holcot's commentary on The Book of Wisdom, "Super Sapientiam Salomonis," and of Chaucer's method of constant mixture of various viewpoints (especially those of Cicero, Valerius, and Albertus) sheds light on Chaucer's "heigh ymaginacioun forncast" and the effect on the court audience of Chauntecleer as a learned clerk.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.