Liturgy as a Common Source for Chaucer and Deschamps

Author / Editor
Crepin, Andre.

Title
Liturgy as a Common Source for Chaucer and Deschamps

Published
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 48 (1995): 23-43.

Description
The liturgy is omnipresent in the texts of medieval writers, including lay writers, although its influence is often indirect.
Deschamps, Chaucer, and their fellow poets were proud of their pagan learning and eager to display it, although Chaucer felt some remorse; hence, his palinode at the end of TC and his Ret at the end of CT.
The conclusion of TC unites elements from Dante and the liturgy.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Chaucer's Retraction.