The Knowledge of John of Salisbury in the Late Middle Ages

Author / Editor
Linder, Amnon.

Title
The Knowledge of John of Salisbury in the Late Middle Ages

Published
Studi Medievali, 3rd ser., 18 (1977): 315-55.

Description
Surveys the availability of manuscripts of John of Salisbury's "Policraticus" and allusions to this work among theologians, jurists, and political writers of the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. Comments on uses of the text by various vernacular writers in Europe, including brief mention of Chaucer's uses.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.