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Article: Wenceslas Clemens' homage at the tomb of Chaucer, 1636.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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An early visitor to the tomb of Chaucer in Westminster Abbey, in the mid-1630s, was the Czech neo-Latin poet Wenceslas Clemens. Clemens's account of his visit, published in 1636, which so far as I am aware has escaped the notice of Chaucerians,(1) is of considerable interest for the surprising light it throws on the reception of Chaucer in the early seventeenth century. A few details about the life and works of Clemens are an essential preliminary to a discussion of his remarks.(2) Wenceslas Clemens was born c. 1589 at Zebrak in Bohemia. He took his LLB degree at Prague in 1612 and a Master's degree in law in 1614. For a time thereafter he was a schoolmaster, but, as an ...
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