The 'Fabulae' of Walter of England, the Medieval Scholastic Tradition, and the British Vernacular Fable

Author / Editor
Wheatley, Thomas Edward.

Title
The 'Fabulae' of Walter of England, the Medieval Scholastic Tradition, and the British Vernacular Fable

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 805A-06A.

Description
The "forms of allegory" found in Walter of England's Latin "Fabulae," as well as its "structure and vocabulary of scholastic presentation, profoundly influenced the fables of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Robert Henryson." Discusses NPT, Lydgate's "Iospes Fabules," and Henryson's "Morall Fabillis."

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Nun's Priest and His Tale