Rewriting Langland and Chaucer : Heresy and Literary Authority in Late-Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Cole, Andrew.
Rewriting Langland and Chaucer : Heresy and Literary Authority in Late-Medieval England
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2704A, 2001.
- Description
- Although many assume that Chaucer and Langland felt compelled to revise their works to avoid anti-Wycliffite censorship, such censorship was restricted to clerical writing. Chaucer drew on Wycliffite translation techniques to improve his skill, as seen in the contrast between Bo and Astr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Boece.
- Treatise on the Astrolabe.