Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer and His Followers
Author:
Edward W. Wheatley
ISBN:
0813017459
Format:
Handover
Publish Date:
June, 2005
Book Review
Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer and His Followers
FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this first study of a text from the primary school canon, Edward Wheatley examines fable as a mode of discourse in its medieval curricular context and then discusses the ways in which it influenced the work of Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson.