Arabic learning in the work of Geoffrey Chaucer

[Paul Ferguson]

This thesis examines the influence of Arabic learning, in Latin translations, on Chaucer’s oeuvre. Chapter Four concentrates on the technical transmission of Arabic alchemical sources in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, which act as a metaphor for fin’ amors. 

Shazia Jagot

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