The 'Fabulae' of Walter of England, the Medieval Scholastic Tradition, and the British Vernacular Fable
- Author / Editor
- Wheatley, Thomas Edward.
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