Machaut's Legacy : The Chaucerian Inheritance Reconsidered

Published: R. Barton Palmer, ed. Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition (New York: AMS Press, 1999), pp. 29-46

Description: The most important source for Chaucer's BD is not Machaut's Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne but his Dit de la fonteinne; for LGWP, not the French "Marguerite poems" but Machaut's Jugement dou Roy de Navarre. Moreover, the belief that Chaucer drifted away from French influence in his later works is now "defunct"; there is significant influence of Machaut on Chaucer's MerT, for example. Revised version; first published in Studies in the Literary Imagination 20 (1987): 9-22.

Alternative Title: Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition.

Chaucer Subjects: Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.; Merchant and His Tale.; Book of the Duchess.; Legend of Good Women.