Bird Lore and the Valentine's Day Tradition in Chaucer's "Parlement of Foules."
- Author / Editor
- Von Kreisler, Nicolai.
Bird Lore and the Valentine's Day Tradition in Chaucer's "Parlement of Foules."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968): 60-64.
- Description
- Adduces several passages from "thirteenth century 'De Arte Venandi cum Avibus' of Frederick of Hohenstaufen" to argue that in the setting and details of his bird parliament in PF Chaucer "may have been concerned as much with authentic bird lore as with fable or literary convention."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations