'Visio Baleii': An Early Literary Historian
- Author / Editor
- Hudson, Anne.
'Visio Baleii': An Early Literary Historian
- Published
- Helen Cooper and Sally Mapstone, eds. The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 313-29.
- Description
- Describes how John Bales sought to preserve English literary tradition by cataloging it in his "Scriptorum illustrium maioris Brytanniae...Catalogus" (1557 and 1559). Comments on Bale's treatment of Chaucer in the "longest entry concerning a medieval writer in the vernacular."
- Alternative Title
- The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.