Species or Specious? Authorial Choices and 'The Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Species or Specious? Authorial Choices and 'The Parliament of Fowls'
- Published
- Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 233-47.
- Description
- Compares the birds of PF to birds in medieval scientific texts, in sources or analogues (especially Alan de Lille's "De planctu Naturae"), and in the observable environment. Chaucer fills PF with birds known in England, classifying them by diet but also by class. The birds represent diverse species native to England as well as the diversity of human society, anticipating the estates satire of CT.
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations