Instructional Poetry for Medieval Children

Author / Editor
Harris, A. Leslie.

Title
Instructional Poetry for Medieval Children

Published
English Studies 74 (1993): 124-32.

Description
Late-medieval instructional poetry presents children as adults saw them and with adults' worries about them. In late-medieval narrative poetry, children are almost entirely absent, apart from a few exceptions such as the Pearl-maiden, the clergeon of PrT.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.