English Imitations of the 'Homelia Origenis de Maria Magdalena'

Author / Editor
Woolf, Rosemary

Title
English Imitations of the 'Homelia Origenis de Maria Magdalena'

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 384-91.

Description
Describes English analogues and the Latin original to Chaucer's lost translation, "Origenes upon the Maudelyne" (LGWP-F 428), hypothesizing that Chaucr translated his work upon the request of a lady and speculating why he may have done so.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations