Chaucer’s Retraction

Summary

I. Bede, Retractatio in Actus Apostolorum 778

(ed. M. L. W. Laistner)

AUTHORIAL HUMILITY: ANALOGUES TO LINES 1081–4

II. Jean de Meun, Le Testament 780

(ed. Silvia Buzzetti Gallarati)

III. John Bromyard, Summa Praedicantium 781

IV. Don Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor 781

(ed. Carlos Alvar and Pilar Palanco)

V. Giovanni Boccaccio, Genealogia Deorum Gentilium 782

(ed. Vincenzo Romano)

THE “RETRACTIO PROPER” – “WORLDLY VANITEES”: ANALOGUES

TO LINES 1085–8

VI. Plato, Phaedrus 783

(trans. C. J. Rowe)

VII. Horace, Epistula ad Florum 784

(ed. Niall Rudd)

VIII. Ovid, Tristia 784

(trans. Arthur Leslie Wheeler)

IX. Faltonia Betitia Proba, Probae Cento 786

(ed. Elizabeth A. Clark and Diane F. Hatch)

X. Sedulius, Paschale Carmen 786

(ed. Johannes Huemer)

XI. Sidonius Apollinaris, Letter IX.xvi 787

(trans. W. B. Anderson)

XII. Blossius Aemilius Dracontius, Satisfactio 788

(ed. Felicianus Speranza)

XIII. Wandalbert von Prüm, Martyrologium 788

(ed. Ernst Dümmler)

XIV. Marbod de Rennes, Liber decem capitulorum 789

(ed. Rosario Leotta)

XV. Guibert de Nogent, Autobiographie 790

(ed. Edmond-René Labande)

XVI. Peter of Blois, Epistola LXXVI 791

(ed. J.-P. Migne)

XVII. Ramon Llull, Vita Coetanea 791

(ed. Erhard W. Platzeck)

XVIII. Ibn Hazm, The Ring of the Dove 793

(trans. A. J. Arberry)

XIX. Hartmann von Aue, Gregorius 793

(ed. Hermann Paul)

XX. Walther von der Vogelweide, “Mîn sêle müeze wol gevarn!” 794

(ed. Karl Lachmann and Christoph Cormeau)

XXI. Rudolf von Ems, Barlaam und Josaphat 795

(ed. Franz Pfeiffer)

XXII. Denis Piramus, La Vie Seint Edmund le rei 796

(ed. Hilding Kjellman)

XXIII. Guillaume le Clerc de Normandie, Le Besant de Dieu 797

(ed. Pierre Ruelle)

XXIV. Rutebeuf, La Repentance de Rutebeuf 797

(ed. Michel Zink)

XXV. Jean de Meun, Le Testament 798

(ed. Silvia Buzzetti Gallarati)

XXVI. Francesco Petrarch, Poem I 799

(ed. Gianfranco Contini)

XXVII. Llywelyn Goch, I Dduw 800

(ed. Owen Jones et al.)

XXVIII. Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini [Pope Pius II], Bulla

Retractationum 801

CHAUCER’s LIST OF WORKS

XXIX. Chaucer, Prologue to the Legend of Good Women 803

(ed. Larry Benson)

XXX. Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum 805

(ed. Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors)

XXXI. Chrétien de Troyes, Cligés 808

(trans. Burton Raffel)

No direct sources for Chaucer’s Retraction have been identified, and my purpose here is not to identify any particular source but to present analogues to the literary topoi contained in it.