Chaucer on Love, Knowledge, and Sight

Author / Editor
Klassen, Norman.

Title
Chaucer on Love, Knowledge, and Sight

Published
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995.

Physical Description
xi, 225 pp.

Series
Chaucer Studies, no. 21.

Description
Examines Chaucer's views on knowing and loving as they are connected and opposed through sight imagery.
Surveys in individual chapters the philosophical and literary backgrounds of such connection and opposition and assesses their roles in the tradition of medieval love poetry.
In Chaucer's works, the interrelations among love, knowledge, and sight are particularly self-reflexive, here examined in BD, HF, PF, LGW, and, most extensively, TC, KnT, MerT, and SNT receive the most attention among the tales of CT.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.