De Miseria Condicionis Humane
- Author / Editor
- Lewis, Robert E., ed.
De Miseria Condicionis Humane
- Published
- Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 303 pp.
- Series
- The Chaucer Library.
- Description
- Facing-page (English/Latin) edition of Innocent's treatise, "De Miseria Condicionis Humane," unemended from British Library Manuscript Lansdowne 358, with extensive critical and textual information. including descriptions of the manuscripts and discussion of the influence of the work on medieval tradition. Chaucer used Innocent's treatise as a source for portions of MLPT, PardT, and perhaps elsewhere, and he may have translated it. Lewis tabulates the influence of the treatise on Chaucer and argues that he indeed translated it as his (lost) "Of the Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde," identified in LGW G414-15. Lewis also considers the date of Chaucer's translation and comments on the text that he may have used, exploring the evidence of the glosses to MLT.
- Contributor
- Innocent III, Pope
- Lotario Dei Segni
- Alternative Title
- De Miseria Conditionis
- De Contemptu Mundi
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Chaucerian Apocrypha