Chaucer and the History of Rome
- Author / Editor
- Waller, Martha S.
Chaucer and the History of Rome
- Published
- DAI 34.04 (1973): 1942A.
- Description
- Surveys medieval understandings of Rome and its history as background to understanding Chaucer's allusions to Rome and Romans, especially his treatments of them in PhyT, SNT, the Caesar and Nero accounts in MkT, and the Lucrece legend of LGW. Concludes with a comparison of Chaucer's depictions with Gower's.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
- Second Nun and Her Tale
- Monk and His Tale
- Legend of Good Women
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations