Chaucer's Bad Tales: The Aesthetic Forms of Late Medieval Pathos and the Tradition of 'Sermo Humilis'

Author / Editor
Weissman, Hope Phyllis.

Title
Chaucer's Bad Tales: The Aesthetic Forms of Late Medieval Pathos and the Tradition of 'Sermo Humilis'

Published
DAI 34.06 (1973): 3362A.

Description
Traces the development of the "sermo humilis" tradition in literature and the visual arts as a context for Chaucer's uses of "pathetic style" in the Ugolino episode of MkT, PrT, PhyT, and MLT, arguing that these accounts reflect the evolution of Gothic pathos.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Physician and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale