Froissart's 'Dit dou Bleu Chevalier' as a Source for Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Crane, Susan.
Froissart's 'Dit dou Bleu Chevalier' as a Source for Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Medium Aevum 61 (1992): 59-74.
- Description
- Despite traditional misconceptions of their relative chronology and a lack of specific verbal echoes, the "structural and thematic parallels" of BD and Froissart's "Dit dou Bleu Chevalier" indicate Chaucer's dependence on Froissart. Their common features include "emblematic descriptions, representations of service and patronage, and articulations between court occasions and commemorative writing."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.