Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers
- Author / Editor
- Tolan, John.
Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers
- Published
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993.
- Physical Description
- xv, 288 pp.
- Description
- Surveys the life and works of Petrus Alfonsi and the reception of his two major works: the anti-Jewish "Dialogi contra Iudaeos" and his collection of tales and wisdom literature, "Disciplina clericus." Tolan briefly mentions Mel as evidence of Chaucer's regard for Petrus as an authority, an attitude widely reflected in the "Disciplina's" popularity as a preachers' handbook and a source of proverbs and tales.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Tale of Melibee.