The Doctor in Nigellus Wireker and Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Regenos, Graydon W.
The Doctor in Nigellus Wireker and Chaucer.
- Published
- Charles Henderson, Jr., ed. Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Honor of Berthold Louis Ullman. 2 vols. (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratre, 1964), 2: 41-46.
- Description
- Argues that it "seems altogether likely" that when creating his GP description of the Physician Chaucer "at least had in mind" the doctor of the Brunellus the ass episode in Nigellus Wireker's "Speculum Stultorum"; both doctors are avaricious.
- Contributor
- Henderson, Charles, Jr., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Honor of Berthold Louis Ullman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
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