The Vintner's Son: French Wine in English Bottles

Author / Editor
Robbins, Rossell Hope.

Title
The Vintner's Son: French Wine in English Bottles

Published
Kibler, William W., ed. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976), pp. 147-72.

Description
Surveys the density and intensity of French influence on the literature of medieval England, focusing on courtly romance and how its plots and "interest in love's finesse" affected the English tradition separately. Outlines some possible connections between Chaucer and early French romance, and clarifies the fundamental influence of later "dits amoureux" on his love visions and TC.

Contributor
Kibler, William W., ed.

Alternative Title
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations