'Clerkes, Poetes, and Historiographs': Chaucer, Langland, and the Literature of History

Author / Editor
Kelen, Sarah Ann.

Title
'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.