Chaucer's Boethius and Thomas Usk's 'Testament of Love': Politics and Love in the Chaucerian Tradition

Author / Editor
Carlson, David R.

Title
Chaucer's Boethius and Thomas Usk's 'Testament of Love': Politics and Love in the Chaucerian Tradition

Published
Robert Taylor, James F. Burke, Patricia J. Eberle, Ian Lancashire, and Brian S. Merrilees, eds. The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 29-70.

Description
Usk's "Testament of Love" relies on Chaucer's translation of Bo and his literary reworking of philosophy in TC, but it reflects even more significantly Chaucer's innovations in writing nondevotional, apolitical, self-consciously literary prose texts.

Alternative Title
The Centre and Its Compass: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor John Leyerle.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.