Chaucer, Humanism, and Printing: Conditions of Authorship in Fifteenth-Century England

Author / Editor
Carlson, David R.

Title
Chaucer, Humanism, and Printing: Conditions of Authorship in Fifteenth-Century England

Published
University of Toronto Quarterly 64:2 (1995): 274-88.

Description
Inferences about Chaucer's court life and patronage provided literary successors with a model for the profitabliity of writing poetry, which--along with the increase in the number of Italian humanists and the advent of printing--fostered the viability of literary professionalism in fifteenth-century England.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.