Chaucer's "Decameron" and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Biggs, Frederick M.

Title
Chaucer's "Decameron" and the Origin of the "Canterbury Tales."

Published
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017.

Physical Description
275 pp.

Description
Addresses connections between Boccaccio's "Decameron" and CT, with particular focus on ShT, MilT, and WBT. Presents a "hermeneutic argument" that explores areas including "alchemy, domestic spaces, economic history, folklore, Irish/English politics, manuscripts, and misogyny" in works of Boccaccio and Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canterbury Tales--General
Miller and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Shipman and His Tale