'As olde bookes maken us memorie': Chaucer and the Clerical Commentary Tradition

Author / Editor
Gerber, Amanda J.

Title
'As olde bookes maken us memorie': Chaucer and the Clerical Commentary Tradition

Published
Florilegium 29 (2013 for 2012): 171-200.

Description
Argues that the condensing and synthesizing of sources in MkT mirrors the way in which clerical commentary changed in the fourteenth century to accommodate new readers uneducated in monastic tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations