Chaucer's Visual World: A Study of His Poetry and the Medieval Optical Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Peter.
Chaucer's Visual World: A Study of His Poetry and the Medieval Optical Tradition
- Published
- Ph.D. diss., 1981. University of York, England.
- Physical Description
- 2 vols.
- Description
- Medieval universities taught "perspectiva," or optics, important in literary realism. Chaucer's use of light, vision, and space parallels passages in optical texts and becomes thematic in CT, fragments G and A. Jean de Meun, Dante, and Boccaccio were also interested in optics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.