Medieval Rhetoric and Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale

Author / Editor
Gallick, Susan Lydia.

Title
Medieval Rhetoric and Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale

Published
DAI 33.08 (1973): 4342A.

Description
Surveys rhetorical traditions in fourteenth-century England and assesses the impact of "artes poetriae," "grammaticae," and "praedicandi" on Chaucer's poetry generally and on NPT in particular. Includes appendixes of medieval rhetorical terms (with translations) and descriptions and locations of manuscripts of Latin rhetorical manuals.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Style and Versification