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The "Fabulae" of Walter of England, the medieval scholastic tradition, and the British vernacular fable.

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Title/Author:	The "Fabulae" of Walter of England, the medieval scholastic tradition, and the British vernacular fable./
Author:	Wheatley, Thomas Edward.
Description:	421 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0805.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-03A.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9221048

The "Fabulae" of Walter of England, the medieval scholastic tradition, and the British vernacular fable.
Wheatley, Thomas Edward.

The "Fabulae" of Walter of England, the medieval scholastic tradition, and the British vernacular fable. - 421 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0805.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 1991.

The Aesopic fables taught in European grammar school classrooms of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries gave students a common foundation for the understanding of basic allegory. The best-known of these fable collections, sixty Latin verse tales ascribed to Walter of England, survives in more than 130 manuscripts and was printed more than twenty-five times before 1500. In my dissertation I examine the types of figurative discourse in Walter's Fabulae and related scholastic commentaries; I have found that the forms of allegory in these writings, as well as the structure and vocabulary of scholastic presentation, profoundly influenced the fables of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Robert Henryson.Subjects--Topical Terms:

571675
Literature, Medieval.

The "Fabulae" of Walter of England, the medieval scholastic tradition, and the British vernacular fable.
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520 $a The Aesopic fables taught in European grammar school classrooms of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries gave students a common foundation for the understanding of basic allegory. The best-known of these fable collections, sixty Latin verse tales ascribed to Walter of England, survives in more than 130 manuscripts and was printed more than twenty-five times before 1500. In my dissertation I examine the types of figurative discourse in Walter's Fabulae and related scholastic commentaries; I have found that the forms of allegory in these writings, as well as the structure and vocabulary of scholastic presentation, profoundly influenced the fables of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Robert Henryson.
520 $a Although the depth of allegorical meaning in any one of Walter's fables is not great, a detailed study of the entire collection reveals a surprising richness of allegorical forms and structures; as a group, the fables propose an ambitious, multivalent view of their genre. This multivalence was compounded after the thirteenth century, when Walter's work began to acquire scholastic commentaries assigning both moral and spiritual significance to the fables. My dissertation includes an overview of the commentary manuscripts in the British Library, in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and at Oxford, and I reproduce as appendices the two most popular commentaries, those from the Esopus moralizatus and Auctores octo texts.
520 $a Half of the dissertation is a consideration of Chaucer, Lydgate, and Henryson as students of Walter's Fabulae and their commentaries. In "The Nun's Priest's Tale," Isopes Fabules, and the Morall Fabillis, these authors stretch the traditional boundaries of the genre by combining the scholastic and the literary. In light of the commentary tradition we see that the Nun's Priest's references to patristic philosophers and pagan auctores are not necessarily satirical, since such references appear frequently in fable commentaries. We can also understand how Henryson adapted spiritual allegory from schoolbooks for the moralitates of both his Aesopic fables and his tales from the beast-epic tradition. Only Lydgate does not exploit scholastic commentary creatively; while his debt to the tradition is clear, he fails to effect a synthesis of the two bodies of material.
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