'Logos' and 'Physis'--The Word in the World: Poetic Uses of the Stars during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author / Editor
Shutt, Timothy Baker.

Title
'Logos' and 'Physis'--The Word in the World: Poetic Uses of the Stars during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 1937A.

Description
To Chaucer, Dante, Henryson, and Milton, the heavens were a celestial text, and movers of the spheres governed earthly affairs. Astral configurations allegorized to serve theological ends show the poets using accepted interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.