Chaucer the Historian: Chaucer's Reception, Reproduction, and Transmission of Humanist Historiographical Style

乔叟作为“英国诗歌之父”的美誉已经使他对英国史学的革命性影响黯然失色。我的博士论文探讨了意大利人文主义对乔叟历史写作的文体影响，并弥合了两个专题学术领域之间的显着差距;乔叟和意大利，乔叟的历史感。风格和礼仪是文艺复兴时期人文主义的前提，根据特定的模式或流派，雄辩地应用适当的修辞语域，揭示个人的才华。乔叟对这些谓词的敏锐理解创造了英国历史写作的新景观，这是我的论文第一次考察。我探讨了第一次涉足这一新的景观追溯乔叟的独特的历史风格的影响，如约翰Lydgate和奥斯伯恩Bokenham，其模仿乔叟在15世纪确立了他作为英格兰的伟大的历史诗人的诗人历史学家。

Chaucer's well-worn reputation as the Father of English Poetry has eclipsed his revolutionary effect upon English historiography. My doctoral thesis explores the stylistic influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer's historical writing, and bridges the striking gap between two topical scholarly fields; Chaucer and Italy, and Chaucer's sense of history. Style and decorum were the predicates of Renaissance humanism, the eloquent application of the appropriate rhetorical register in accordance with a given mode or genre, which revealed individual talent. Chaucer's acute understanding of these predicates created a new landscape of historical writing in England, which my thesis examines for the first time. I explore the first forays into this new landscape by tracing the influence Chaucer's distinctive historical style had on poet-historians such as John Lydgate and Osbern Bokenham, whose imitation of Chaucer in the fifteenth century established him as England's great historical poet.