Mastering Aesop
Subtitle: medieval education, Chaucer, and his followers
By: Edward Wheatley.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Gainesville, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? -- Knowledge -- Literature; Henryson, Robert, 1430?-1506?; Aesop -- Appreciation -- Great Britain; Aesop -- Influence; Aesop's fables; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Fables, Greek -- Adaptations -- History and criticism; Fables, English -- History and criticism; English literature -- Greek influences; Education, Medieval -- Great Britain; Animals in literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and indexes.