The Legacy of the Bestiaries in Chaucer and Henryson
- Author / Editor
- Honegger, Thomas.
The Legacy of the Bestiaries in Chaucer and Henryson
- Published
- Reinardus 12: 45-65, 1999
- Description
- Chaucer and Henryson use the bestiaries in different ways. Chaucer only hints at the allegorical potential of his animals in CT and PF, although he does capitalize on familiar allegorizations in his similes and symbols. More directly, Henryson "applies the technique of allegorical interpretations of animals" that is found in bestiaries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.