Reading Chaucer Through Philippe de Mézières: Alchemy, the Individual, and the Good Society

Author / Editor
Collette, Carolyn P.

Title
Reading Chaucer Through Philippe de Mézières: Alchemy, the Individual, and the Good Society

Published
Christoph Huber and Henrike Lähnemann, eds. Courtly Literature and Clerical Culture / Höfische Literatur und Klerikerkultur / Littérature courtoise et culture cléricale. Selected Papers from the Tenth Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, Universitat Tübingen, Deutschland, 28 Juli-3 August 2001 (Tübingen: Attempto, 2002), pp. 177-94.

Description
Collette reads the end of CT against Philippe de Mézières' "Songe du vieil pelerin," indicating Chaucer's connections with contemporary Anglo-French literature and exploring the relations between politics and morality in four Tales: alchemy as a trope in SNT and CYT; speech in ManT; and critique of aristocratic excess in ParsT.

Contributor
Huber, Christoph, ed.
Lähnemann, Henrike, ed.

Alternative Title
Courtly Literature and Clerical Culture / Höfische Literatur und Klerikerkultur / Littérature courtoise et culture cléricale.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
Manciple and His Tale.
Parson and His Tale.