Ubiquitous Format? What Ubiquitous Format? Chaucer's Tale of Melibee as a Proverb Collection

Author / Editor
Bowden, Betsy.

Title
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.