A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's "Melibeus" Considered in Its Relation to the French Source.
- Author / Editor
- Hartung, Albert E.
A Study of the Textual Affiliations of Chaucer's "Melibeus" Considered in Its Relation to the French Source.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Lehigh University, 1957. Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://preserve.lehigh.edu/lehigh-scholarship/graduate-publications-theses-dissertations/theses-dissertations/study-textual.
- Physical Description
- viii, 111 pp.
- Description
- Compares "the accepted and variant readings of 'Melibeus' with the corresponding passages in the French source, 'Le Livre de Melibee et Prudence'," assessing variants from fifty-seven manuscriptsof Mel and arguing that there was "an earlier version of 'Melibeus' by Chaucer in general circulation during the time the manuscripts we now have were copied."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations