Acquiring Wisdom: Teaching Texts and the Lore of the People

Author / Editor
Anlezark, Daniel.

Title
Acquiring Wisdom: Teaching Texts and the Lore of the People

Published
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 297-317.

Description
Explores differences between traditional "wisdom" literature and popular lore in Old and Middle English, discussing clashes between the "worlds of book learning and popular wisdom" in CT, especially in WBP and MilT.

Alternative Title
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Miller and His Tale