Chaucer's Boethius and Thomas Usk's 'Testament of Love': Politics and Love in the Chaucerian Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Carlson, David R.
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.