Chaucer and Pope Innocent III's "De Miseria Humane Conditionis."

Author / Editor
Lewis, Robert Enzer.

Title
Chaucer and Pope Innocent III's "De Miseria Humane Conditionis."

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.12 (1965): 7246-47A.

Description
Establishes the "intellectual background" to Chaucer's translation of Innocent's "De Miseria Humane Conditionis" as his "Wreched Engendrynge of Mankynde," explores Chaucer's uses of the treatise in MLPT and PardT and their manuscripts glosses, and seeks reconstructs the version of the treatise that Chaucer may have used while translating.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Man of Law and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies