"As I kan now remembre": Memory and Making in "The House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Griffiths, Jane.

Title
"As I kan now remembre": Memory and Making in "The House of Fame."

Published
Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton, and Daniel Reeve, eds. Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 121-39.

Description
Interprets HF as 'an experiment in the exercise of poetic memory and poetic composition" that "suggests that memory's anarchic associations cannot fully be controlled," in part because of differences between "the memory of things and the memory of words." Examines relations between architecture and memory in medieval rhetorical theory, uses of source materials in HF, the eagle as "animalis motiua," contrasts between the constructions of Fame (authority) and Rumor experience), and the poem's inconclusiveness.

Contributor
Knox, Philip, ed.
Morton, Jonathan, ed.
Reeve, Daniel, ed.

Alternative Title
Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations