Optical Allusions and Chaucerian Realism: Aspects of Sight in Late Medieval Thought and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Klassen, N.
Optical Allusions and Chaucerian Realism: Aspects of Sight in Late Medieval Thought and 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Stanford Humanities Review 2:2-3 (1992): 129-46.
- Description
- Surveys the late-medieval science of optics, focusing on Alhazen, Grosseteste, Bacon, Ockham, and their links between optics and epistemology. In Boccaccio's "Filostrato," sight is merely a convention of courtly literature, but Chaucer's optical references in TC add theological and philosophical depth to the conventional use.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.