Chaucer's Commentator: Nicholas Trevet and the 'Boece'

Author / Editor
Minnis, A. J.

Title
Chaucer's Commentator: Nicholas Trevet and the 'Boece'

Published
A. J. Minnis, ed. Chaucer's "Boece" and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 83-166.

Description
Surveys scholarly discussion of Chaucer's sources for his extrapolatory glosses in Bo, arguing that he was indebted to "some version of the Remigian glosses," to Jean de Meun's "livres de confort," and to a complete version of Nicholas Trevet's commentary on Boethius.
A series of notes to Bo comment on the specifics of Chaucer's debt to Trevet.

Alternative Title
Chaucer's "Boece" and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius.

Chaucer Subjects
Boece.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.