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Article: Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, The `Decameron' and the `Canterbury Tales': New Essays on an Old Question.
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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(Madison, Wis.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000). 352 pp. ISBN 0-8386-3800-7. 42.50 [pounds sterling].
Chaucer's debt to Filostrato and the Teseida has long been generally acknowledged; this collection of essays addresses once again the more controversial question of his indebtedness to the Decameron. Koff's introduction suggests that the source of resistance to the idea that Chaucer was influenced by the Decameron lies in `the varying degrees of distress some Chaucerians feel in connecting the moral uncertainty, not merely the "immorality" (though perhaps that, too) of the work ... with a Chaucer who has, or ...