Before Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale': The Language of Place, the Place of Language in 'Decameron' 8.1 and 8.2

Author / Editor
Hanning, Robert W.

Title
Before Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale': The Language of Place, the Place of Language in 'Decameron' 8.1 and 8.2

Published
Laura Howe, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 181-96.

Description
Compares and contrasts how Boccaccio's two analogues to ShT evoke differing senses of locale and the signifying potential of language.

Alternative Title
Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative.

Chaucer Subjects
Shipman and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations