Chorography and Topography: Italian Models and Chaucerian Strategies.

Author / Editor
Fulton, Helen.

Title
Chorography and Topography: Italian Models and Chaucerian Strategies.

Published
Helen Fulton, ed. Chaucer and Italian Culture (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2021), pp. 91-120.

Description
Presents examples from the "classical genres of chorography and topography" in analysis of ClT. Argues that Chaucer's “untypical use of chorography . . . draws attention to Italy's international trade routes" and reinforces the economic transactional state of Walter and Griselda's marriage.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Italian Culture

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literay Relations