Mastering Aesop : Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers
- Author / Editor
- Wheatley, Edward.
Mastering Aesop : Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers
- Published
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2000.
- Physical Description
- x, 277 pp.
- Description
- Surveys the use of Latin beast fables in medieval schools and the legacy of this material in the works of late-medieval authors who were educated in the tradition and who wrote in English. Focuses on fables associated with the legendary Roman emperor Romulus and explores adaptations of this and related materials in NPT, John Lydgate's "Isopes Fabules," and Robert Henryson's "Morall Fabillis." Chaucer and Henryson more successfully adapted the conventions of the tradition than did Lydgate. Includes five appendices of Latin fables, English translations, commentaries, and apparatus. Chapter four is a revised version of "Commentary Displacing Text: The Nun's Priest's Tale and the Scholastic Fable Tradition" (SAC 20 [1998], no. 234).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.