'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.
'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.