King Ælle and the Conversion of the English : The Development of a Legend from Bede to Chaucer

Author / Editor
Frankis, John.

Title
King Ælle and the Conversion of the English : The Development of a Legend from Bede to Chaucer

Published
Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg, eds. Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, no. 29. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 74-92.

Series
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, no. 29.

Description
Frankis compares how Chaucer's MLT and Gower's "Tale of Constance" diminish Trevet's historiographical concern with Anglo-Saxon England. From the time of Bede, Aelle was associated with the Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons, a motif retained by Chaucer and Gower.

Contributor
Scragg, Donald, ed.
Weinberg, Carole, ed.

Alternative Title
Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.