The Clerk of Venus: Chaucer and Medieval Romance
- Author / Editor
- Lenaghan, R. T.
The Clerk of Venus: Chaucer and Medieval Romance
- Published
- Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 31-43.
- Description
- Argues that in SqT, FranT, KnT, and TC Chaucer used romance to reconcile his two responsibilities as a lay clerk: "to speak of morality and of the refinements of love."
- Alternative Title
- Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde