Nature, Venus, and Royal Decadence : Political Theory and Political Practice in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
- Author / Editor
- St. John, Michael.
Nature, Venus, and Royal Decadence : Political Theory and Political Practice in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
- Published
- Michael St. John, ed. Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture (Aldershot, Hants; and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1999), pp. 17-26.
- Series
- Studies in European Culture, no. 3.
- Description
- Political theory from Alain de Lille and Aristotle underlies PF, and events of the Good Parliament (1376) are reflected in it. Chaucer's Priapus and Venus allude to Edward III and Alice Perrers, while Nature's parliament is Chaucer's political ideal and his depiction of proper aristocratic behavior.
- Alternative Title
- Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture. Studies in European Culture, no. 3.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.