Chaucer and the Unnatural History of Animals.

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
Chaucer and the Unnatural History of Animals.

Published
Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 367-72.

Description
Clarifies the conventionality of Chaucer's references to allegorical and/or exemplary animals and their significances, offering numerous examples to show that Chaucer's allusions are "brief" and generally similar to and/or derived from "the most widely defused tales of antiquity," the Bestiary, ecclesiastical architecture and illuminated manuscripts, homilies, or folk tradition

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations