Chaucer's Use of Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum," with an Edition of Book I, Chapters 40-49, Based on a Study of Medieval Manuscripts.

Author / Editor
Silvia, Daniel Shiver, Jr.

Title
Chaucer's Use of Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum," with an Edition of Book I, Chapters 40-49, Based on a Study of Medieval Manuscripts.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 23.11 (1963): 4345-46.

Description
Describes Chaucer's knowledge of and uses of Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" in CT, as well as his references to the treatise and glosses to his manuscripts that quote it, focusing on the tales of the Marriage Group. Includes an edition of ten chapters of Book 1 Jerome's text, which influenced Chaucer most directly.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Franklin and His Tale