"But men seyn, 'What may ever last?'": Chaucer's "House of Fame" as a Medieval Museum.
- Author / Editor
- Hines, John.
"But men seyn, 'What may ever last?'": Chaucer's "House of Fame" as a Medieval Museum.
- Published
- Jan-Peer Hartmann and Andrew James Johnston, eds. Material Remains: Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021), pp. 240-57.
- Description
- Considers possibilities of assessing material archeology in medieval literature and offers a case study concerning HF, observing connections between the brass-tablet account of Aeneas in the poem (lines 140ff.) and monumental brasses, hypothesizing Fame’s palace as a medieval version of a museum, and connecting them both with the open-endedness of the poem and early modern sensibilities.
- Contributor
- Hartmann, Jan-Peer, ed.
Johnston, Andrew James, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Material Remains: Reading the Past in Medieval and Early Modern British Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame