Chaucer Translates the Matter of Spain

Author / Editor
Yeager, R. F.

Title
Chaucer Translates the Matter of Spain

Published
María Bullón-Fernández, ed. England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges. The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 189-214.

Description
Considers the importance of Spain in Chaucer's life, in the politics of his age, and in his literary allusions, arguing that Chaucer could read Spanish and that his familiarity with the tale collections of Petrus Alfonsi and Don Juan Manuel "would have increased his receptivity" to Boccaccio's works later in his career.

Contributor
Bullón-Fernández, María, ed.

Alternative Title
England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.