The Classical and Modern Concept of Auctoritas in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Gutiérrez Arranz, José María.

Title
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.