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Portrait of Chaucer (16th century). The arms are: Per pale argent and gules, a bend counterchanged. Chaucer's first major work was The Book of the Duchess, an elegy for Blanche of Lancaster, who died in 1368. Two other early works were Anelida and Arcite and The House of Fame. He wrote many of his major works in a prolific period when he worked ...
The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, owned by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most significant copies of the Tales.
The 15th century is a time of experimentation and “play” with poetry. The 15th-century poets often attempt to generate new meaning from previous poetry by picking apart the old in order to mold it into something new. Such is the relationship between the so-called Scottish “Chaucerians” and Geoffrey Chaucer himself. [1]
Thus, the latter portion of the 14th century can be seen as one of the most significant periods in the history of the English language. [6] The reputation of Chaucer's successors in the 15th century has suffered in comparison with him, though Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, and Skelton are widely studied.
Chaucer may have read the Decameron during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. [citation needed] Chaucer used a wide variety of sources, but some, in particular, were used frequently over several tales, among them the Bible, Classical poetry by Ovid, and the works of contemporary Italian writers Petrarch and Dante. Chaucer was the ...
Chaucer Review 2. 205-234. 1967. Paul Theiner. Robertsonianism and the Idea of Literary History. Studies in Medieval Culture 6-7. 195-204. 1982. M. A. Manzalaoui. Robertson and Eloise. Downside Review 100. 280-289. 1987. Lee Patterson. Historical Criticism and the Development of Chaucer Studies. Negotiating the Past. Madison WI: University of ...
Chaucer appears to have compiled the tale himself mostly from three different thirteenth-century works, translating their contents into English. He used the Summa de poenitentia of the Dominican Raymund of Pennaforte for the sections on contrition, confession, and satisfaction, inserting the material on the sins in the middle from a source that ...
'The Book of the Duchess', ed. by Colin Wilcockson, in The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Larry D. Benson, third edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 329–46; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, ed. by Helen Phillips, Durham and St. Andrews Medieval Texts, 3 (Durham: Durham and St. Andrews Medieval Texts, 1982), ISBN 0950598925