The Classical and Modern Concept of Auctoritas in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Gutiérrez Arranz, José María.
The Classical and Modern Concept of Auctoritas in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 6: 85-102, 1996.
- Description
- Surveys classical concepts of authority and Chaucer's uses of classical authorities, arguing that although Chaucerian allusions reflect medieval continuity with Stoicism and Epicurianism, the poet uses classical authorities, especially Ovid, in unusual ways.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.