Chaucer, Sir John Mandeville, and the Alliterative Revival: A Hypothesis concerning Relationships

Author / Editor
Moseley, C. W. R. D.

Title
Chaucer, Sir John Mandeville, and the Alliterative Revival: A Hypothesis concerning Relationships

Published
Modern Philology 72.2 (1974): 182-84.

Description
Suggests that the influence of Mandeville's "Travels" on SqT and on alliterative poetry including "Pearl" may have been due to the circulation of the work at the Lancastrian court of John of Gaunt.

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