'By Evene Acord' : Marriage and Genre in the Parliament of Fowls

Author / Editor
Emsley, Sarah.

Title
'By Evene Acord' : Marriage and Genre in the Parliament of Fowls

Published
Chaucer Review 34: 139-49, 1999.

Description
PF is an epithalamium. Epithalamia are not always occasioned by human marriages; they do affirm the heavenly benediction and public recognition of marriage and celebrate the cycle of procreation; they contain "fescennine" verses, which poke fun at the bridegroom and ward off danger by acknowledging his potential for weakness; they do not always end with marriage.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.