'Els Castells Humans': An Architectural Element in 'The House of Fame'

Author / Editor
Serrano Reyes, Jesus L.

Title
'Els Castells Humans': An Architectural Element in 'The House of Fame'

Published
Margarita Gimenez Bon and Vickie Olsen, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Dpto. Filologia Inglesa, 1997), pp. 326-37.

Description
Argues that Chaucer visited Catalonia sometime between 1365 and 1366. Exposure to the country's folklore results in Chaucer's description of folk "alle on an hepe" in HF (2149). Serrano Reyes provided contemporary pictures of this type of "human tower" to support his hypothesis.

Alternative Title
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.
Chaucer's Life.