Chaucer's Idea of What Is Noble.
- Author / Editor
- Coghill, Nevill.
Chaucer's Idea of What Is Noble.
- Published
- London: English Association, 1971.
- Physical Description
- 18 pp.
- Series
- Presidential Address to the English Association
- Description
- Explores the history of the idea of nobility or gentility in European tradition, tracing the etymology of "gentilesse" and Chaucer's importance in the development of the concept in English, especially in KnT, FranT, and WBT. Links Chaucer's uses to related concepts in "Aristotle, the New Testament, Boethius, Ramon Lull, Guillaume de Lorris and Dante."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Knight and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Franklin and His Tale