Article published In: Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society
Edited by Brian J. Levy and Paul Wackers
[Reinardus 9] 1996
► pp. 59–74
'A Fox is a Fox is a Fox... ' The Fox and the Wolf Reconsidered
Published online: 31 December 1996
https://doi.org/10.1075/rein.9.06hon
https://doi.org/10.1075/rein.9.06hon
Abstract
The Middle English The Fox and the Wolf is the first piece of evidence that 'Renart' had crossed the 'linguistic channel' which separated the Anglo-Norman nobility from their English subjects. The article argues that the poet tries to take into account his audience's likely unfamiliarity with the scurrilous beast-epic hero by linking his poem with the already familiar traditions of the beast tale, the beast fable, as well as The Physiologus and the bestiary.
