'As olde bookes maken us memorie': Chaucer and the Clerical Commentary Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Gerber, Amanda J.
'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