Chaucer's "Melibee": What Can We Learn from Some Late-Medieval Manuscripts?

Author / Editor
Jackson, Kate.

Title
Chaucer's "Melibee": What Can We Learn from Some Late-Medieval Manuscripts?

Published
Leeds Studies in English 43 (2012): 93-115.

Description
Discusses the "framing elements" of Mel, its glosses in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts (comparing them with those in ParsT), and the codicological contexts of the five fifteenth-century manuscripts of the Tale that exist "outside the story collection" of CT and indicate that "advice on self-governance" is "central to understanding" the Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Tale of Melibee
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Parson and His Tale