"Is he a clerk, or noon?" Arabic Sources, Vernacular Aristotelianism, and Authorial Responses to the Evolving Social and Intellectual Context of Later Middle English Literature.

Author / Editor
Machulak, Erica R.

Title
"Is he a clerk, or noon?" Arabic Sources, Vernacular Aristotelianism, and Authorial Responses to the Evolving Social and Intellectual Context of Later Middle English Literature.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International A80.06 (2017): n.p.

Description
Suggests that authors including Chaucer, Langland, Hoccleve, and Johannes de Caritate employed Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian sources (many derived from Arabic sources) in the course of exploring types of literary and cultural authority.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations