'Clerkes, Poetes, and Historiographs': Chaucer, Langland, and the Literature of History
- Author / Editor
- Kelen, Sarah Ann.
'Clerkes, Poetes, and Historiographs': Chaucer, Langland, and the Literature of History
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 57 (1997): 3928A.
- Description
- Identified by Caxton as "historiographs," Chaucer and Langland write as historians and consider the meaning of writing history. In TC, Chaucer discusses sources and antiquity as marks of authority and hindrances to reading. The English literary canon is also a historical canon.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.