The Early Reception of Chaucer and Langland
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, A. S. G.
The Early Reception of Chaucer and Langland
- Published
- Florilegium 15: 1-22, 1998.
- Description
- Although both were Londoners, Chaucer and Langland did not share a common readership. Chaucer was acknowledged as a founder of a literary tradition; Langland was appropriated less often and more in ideological than aesthetic terms. Ownership of Langland manuscripts was chiefly clerical and provincial; Chaucer manuscripts were chiefly "urban and urbane" and more inclusive of female readers. In the sixteenth century, reception of the two merged briefly in Reformation anti-Catholicism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.