Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham: Optics, Epistemology and the Foundation of Semantics, 1250-1345

Author / Editor
Tachau, Katherine H.

Title
Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham: Optics, Epistemology and the Foundation of Semantics, 1250-1345

Published
Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1988.

Physical Description
xxii, 428 pp.

Series
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, vol. 22.

Description
Charts the "development of a complex of optical, epistemological, and semantic ideas" in fourteenth-century Oxford, London, and Paris. Cits SqT 225-35.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Squire and His Tale.