Chaucer's Clerk and Chalcidius.

Author / Editor
Wood, Chauncey.

Title
Chaucer's Clerk and Chalcidius.

Published
English Language Notes 4.3 (1967): 166-72.

Description
Traces the legacy of gladly learning and gladly teaching, from Plato's "Timaeus" in Chalcidius's translation through Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" to the GP description of the Clerk (1.308), also noting the presence of the legacy in the description of the Parson (GP 1.528).

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Parson and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations