Chaucer, the Chaucer Tradition, and Female Monastic Readers.

Author / Editor
Warren, Nancy Bradley.

Title
Chaucer, the Chaucer Tradition, and Female Monastic Readers.

Published
Chaucer Review 51.1 (2016): 88-106.

Description
Considers ways that female monastic readers in Amesbury and Syon may have read and used works by Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate. Claims that these "Chaucerian tradition" writings helped influence the devotional culture of female monastic communities.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion