Chaucer and fame. Reputation and reception
by Davis, Isabel, Nall, Catherine
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Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in fame was not new but was renewed and rethought within the vernacular revolutions of the later Middle …