The Date of 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Rand, George I.
The Date of 'Nun's Priest's Tale'
- Published
- American Notes and Queries 7 (1979): 149-50.
- Description
- Observes that Chaunticleer's mistaken reference to Macrobius as the author of the "Somnium Scipionis" (7.3124) may suggest that NPT predates PF (i.e., "no later than 1386"), where Macrobius is accurately identified as the author of the "Commentary" only.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- House of Fame
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations