Ubiquitous Format? What Ubiquitous Format? Chaucer's Tale of Melibee as a Proverb Collection
- Author / Editor
- Bowden, Betsy.
Ubiquitous Format? What Ubiquitous Format? Chaucer's Tale of Melibee as a Proverb Collection
- Published
- Oral Tradition 17 : 169-207, 2002.
- Description
- Bowden defines "sentence," "sawe," and "proverbe" in relation to terms used in the French and Latin sources of Mel, comparing Mel to pedagogical proverb collections to explore Chaucer's "creative interaction with oral tradition."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee.