Venus, Chaucer, and Peter Bersuire.

Author / Editor
Quinn, Betty Nye.

Title
Venus, Chaucer, and Peter Bersuire.

Published
Speculum 38 (1963): 479-80.

Description
Offers evidence that the "Ovidius Moralizatus" of Peter Bersuire (Petrus Berchorius) was the source of iconographical details associated with Venus in Chaucer's descriptions of the goddess in HF 131-39 and KnT 1.1955-66.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
House of Fame
Knight and His Tale