Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer, and His Followers

By Edward Wheatley

In this first study of a text from early childhood education that continued to exert its influence over major Middle English writers in their maturity, 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813017459
• ISBN13: 9780813017457
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"