The Friar as Critic: Bokenham Reads Chaucer

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
The Friar as Critic: Bokenham Reads Chaucer

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996), pp. 63-79.

Description
In his "Legend of Holy Women," Osbern Bokenham "offers something formally similar but ideologically opposite" to LGW. Bokenham parodies Chaucer's work, thus reasserting the hagiographical genre that Chaucer undercut, and indirectly critiques Chaucer's and Gower's uses of rhetoric for secular purposes.

Alternative Title
Mediaevalitas: Reading the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.