Easton and Dante: Beyond Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Havely, Nick.

Title
Easton and Dante: Beyond Chaucer.

Published
Miriam Wendling, ed. Cardinal Adam Easton (c. 1330–1397) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), pp. 119-38.

Description
Demonstrates Adam Easton's "detailed engagement" with Dante's "Monarchia" (especially Book 3) in his "Defensorium ecclesiastice potestatis," and suggests that Easton and Chaucer "might well have known about each other’s work." Includes comments on SNT and Chaucer’s reference to Giovanni da Legnano in ClP.

Contributor
Miriam Wendling, ed.

Alternative Title
Cardinal Adam Easton (c. 1330–1397)

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Clerk and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale