Arithmetic and the Mentality of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Derek.
Arithmetic and the Mentality of Chaucer
- Published
- Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Literature in Fourteenth-Century England (Tubingen: Gunter Narr; Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983), pp. 155-64.
- Description
- Examines arithmetic aspects of Chaucer's poetry in an effort to understand the mind of the man. The arithmetic devices of RvT, ShT, SumT, etc. indicate the strong vein of "modernistic rationalism" in Chaucer, a distinctive feature of his mentality.
- Alternative Title
- Literature in Fourteenth-Century England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.