King Ælle and the Conversion of the English : The Development of a Legend from Bede to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Frankis, John.
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.