Albertus Magnus and the Problem of Sound and Odor in the Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Pratt, Robert A.
Albertus Magnus and the Problem of Sound and Odor in the Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 57 (1978): 267-68.
- Description
- Jankyn's theories of the dissemination of sound and odor coincide precisely with those of medieval science as presented by Albertus Magnus in his "Liber de sensu et sensato." Chaucer draws upon these widely disseminated medieval views rather than upon the opinions of classical writers such as Euclid, Ptolemy, Vitruvius, or Boethius.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.