Reading Dreams, Casting the Future and Other Learned Mirths: The Harley Scribe as Proto-Chaucerian Clerk.

Author / Editor
Fein, Susanna.

Title
Reading Dreams, Casting the Future and Other Learned Mirths: The Harley Scribe as Proto-Chaucerian Clerk.

Published
Sharon M. Rowley, ed. Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 15-41.

Description
Claims that "dreamlore and other prognosticative arts in the Harley Scribe's library" make the Harley Scribe "somewhat of a proto-type for Chaucer's clerks and squires”"in CT; focuses on Chaunticleer in NPT and the Clerk in ClT.

Alternative Title
Writers, Editors, and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General
Clerk and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale