Dictating Authority in Lydgate's Troy Book
- Author / Editor
- Straker, Scott-Morgan.
Dictating Authority in Lydgate's Troy Book
- Published
- Martin Gosman, Arjo Vanderjagt, and Jan Veenstra, eds. The Growth of Authority in the Medieval West: Selected Proceedings of the International Conference, Groningen, 6-9 November 1997 (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1999), pp. 285-306.
- Description
- Assesses Lydgate's responses to authority in "Troy Book": his rhetorical additions to Guido delle Colonne's "Historia destructionis Troiae" (his source), his freeing himself from the influence of TC (his model) by transforming Chaucer into an "institution," and his paradoxical praising and critiquing of Henry V (his patron). In "Troy Book," Lydgate is a reformer of authorities.
- Contributor
- Gosman, Martin, ed.
- Vanderjagt, Arjo, ed.
- Veenstra, Jan, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Growth of Authority in the Medieval West: Selected Proceedings of the International Conference, Groningen, 6-9 November 1997.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde.