Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It : The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text
- Author / Editor
- Cohen, Jeremy.
Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It : The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text
- Published
- Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1989.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 375 pp.
- Description
- Surveys the historical understanding and application of Gen. 1.28, tracing its "career" in Scripture, its interpretations in Hebrew and Christian traditions, and its roles in such literature as Bernard Silvestris's "Cosmographia," Alain de Lille's "De planctu Naturae," and Jean de Meun's "Roman de la rose." Chaucer includes the verse in WBP not to condemn the Wife but to "accentuate her condemnation of medieval Chrsitian values."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.