What Did Chaucer Mean by "Of the Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde"

Author / Editor
Lewis, Robert Enzer.

Title
What Did Chaucer Mean by "Of the Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde"

Published
Chaucer Review 2.3 (1968): 139-58.

Description
Analyzes the context, syntax, and lexicon of Chaucer's reference to his now-lost "Of the Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde" (LGWP-G 414-5) to help establish its nature as a translation of Pope Innocent III's entire "De miseria humane conditionis." Considers the various titles and incipits of Innocent's work to reinforce the argument.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucerian Apocrypha