Some Speculations About Chaucer's familiarity with Spanish Literary Sources
- Author / Editor
- Lázaro Lafuente, Luis Alberto.
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.