Brunhilde on Trial: Fama and Lydgatean Poetics

Author / Editor
Flannery, Mary C.

Title
Brunhilde on Trial: Fama and Lydgatean Poetics

Published
ChauR 42 (2007): 139-60.

Description
Lydgate's poetic trial of Brunhilde indicates a conviction that poets have a central role in shaping and transmitting "fama." In sharp contrast, Chaucer depicts fama as a function of "aventure" in HF.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion