Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Cole, Andrew.

Title
Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer

Published
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Physical Description
xx, 297 pp.

Series
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 71.

Description
Post-Wycliffite writing has a different character from that which preceded it. Writers of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, including Chaucer, produced works with this novel character, often defined as heretical. Cole connects Chaucer's use of the vernacular and his interest in translation to Wycliffism. The prologue to Astr is the primary focus, with some attention to MLE.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Man of Law and His Tale