One Third of the Earth? Europe Seen and Unseen in the Middle English Chronicles of the Fourteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Eckhardt, Caroline D.
One Third of the Earth? Europe Seen and Unseen in the Middle English Chronicles of the Fourteenth Century
- Published
- Comparative Literature 58 (2006): 313-38.
- Description
- Traces conceptualizations of Europe available to fourteenth-century English chroniclers and then explores the use of these by the chroniclers, especially Robert Mannyng and John Trevisa. TC and LGW reflect a tradition that sees Europe as a territory whose inhabitants traced their lineage to "Europa." MLT uses Europe as panegyric.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Man of Law and His Tale.