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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 8/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

Chaucer and the Artes Praedicandi

FAIN: FT-13346-77

Susan Gallick
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To study the availability of the artes praedicandi, manuals on the art of preaching, in the 14th century and Chaucer's probable familiarity with this material. PI will then consider how the rhetorical strategy of medieval preaching Influenced Chaucer's finest poetry.