Chaucer and [Thomas] Aquinas

Author / Editor
Boyer, Robert H.

Title
Chaucer and [Thomas] Aquinas

Published
Michael B. Lukens, ed. Conflict and Community: New Studies in Thomistic Thought (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 103-24.

Description
Argues that Thomas Aquinas was a "direct and major source for Chaucer's philosophy," demonstrates the availability of Thomas's work to Chaucer via Merton College, and explores the similiarities between their views of virtue and of the realism/nominalism controversy. Both writers emphasize "measure" as a standard of virtue and embrace moderate realism.

Contributor
Lukens, Michael B.,ed.

Alternative Title
Conflict and Community: New Studies in Thomistic Thought.
"Chaucer and Aquinas."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.