Dante in Inglissh'; What Il Convivio Really Did for Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair.
Dante in Inglissh'; What Il Convivio Really Did for Chaucer
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 55 (2005): 97-116
- Description
- The Loathly Lady's lecture on "gentilesse" in WBT goes beyond sexual sovereignty to encompass dominium, a concept central to Wyclif's challenge to authority. Without naming his source, Chaucer channels orthodox, Boethian ideas about "gentilesse" through Dante's vernacular Convivio to allow for observations without the taint of Lollardy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.