Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache

Author / Editor
Denny-Brown, Andrea.

Title
Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache

Published
Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown,eds. Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 35-56.

Description
Denny-Brown explores roots of the medieval legends of Bicorn and Chichevache, examining how Chaucer develops the "themes of beastly appetites" in ClT and how Lydgate expands the theme of appetite in his "Bycorne and Chychevache."

Alternative Title
Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale