'But if a man be vertuous withal': Has Aurelius in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale 'lerned gentillesse aright?'
- Author / Editor
- Lucas, Angela M.
'But if a man be vertuous withal': Has Aurelius in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale 'lerned gentillesse aright?'
- Published
- Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 181-200.
- Description
- Surveys approaches to FranT and discusses it as "an exemplum on a young man's learning of gentillesse, by way of serving an apprenticeship in love." Set against actions in other Breton lays, Aurelius's behavior reflects the gentillesse that the Franklin hopes his son will learn.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale.