Some Speculations About Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish Literary Sources

Author / Editor
Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto.

Title
Some Speculations About Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish Literary Sources

Published
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 5 (1996): 18-28.

Description
Surveys scholarship and evidence concerning Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish literature, arguing that critics have exaggerated the possible influence. It is "highly improbable" that Chaucer was directly influenced by medieval Spanish writers; similarities are better explained by the homogeneity of Western medieval tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.