Local Histories : Characteristic Worlds in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Thompson, N. S.
Local Histories : Characteristic Worlds in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 85-101.
- Description
- Studies two ways CT borrows from Boccaccio: first, in transforming exemplary narratives into "novelles" and, second, in the use of narrative detail to create local history. MilT, RvT, and ShT are examples.
- Alternative Title
- Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question .
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Shipman and His Tale.