What Did Chaucer Mean by "Of the Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde"
- Author / Editor
- Lewis, Robert Enzer.
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