'We Thurghoutly Hauen Cnawyng' : Ideas of Learning and Knowing in Some Works of Chaucer, Gower, and the Pearl-Poet

Author / Editor
Bauer, Kate [A.]

Title
'We Thurghoutly Hauen Cnawyng' : Ideas of Learning and Knowing in Some Works of Chaucer, Gower, and the Pearl-Poet

Published
Nancy M. Reale and Ruth E. Sternglantz, eds. Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001), pp. 205-26.

Description
Explores the figure of the "puer senex" (wise youth) in "Pearl," Gower's "Confessio Amantis" ("Tale of Apollonius"), courtesy books, and PrT. Chaucer carefully presents an "ordinary world" in which the clergeon of PrT is educated through realistic educational practice; in contrast with the Prioress, however, the boy achieves transcendent knowledge.

Contributor
Reale, Nancy M., ed.
Sternglantz, Ruth E., ed.

Alternative Title
Satura: Studies in Medieval Literature in Honour of Robert R. Raymo.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale.