Cosmic Law and Literary Character in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Laird, Edgar (S.)

Title
Cosmic Law and Literary Character in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp. 101-15.

Description
KnT "participates in a tradition antagonistic to the new nominalism, "based on a "scientific ontology consonant with Boethianism" and understandable in light of the truth-theories of Albumasar, Robert Grosseteste, and John Wyclif.

Alternative Title
Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.