The Dialectic of Divine Omnipotence in the Age of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Courtenay, William J.
The Dialectic of Divine Omnipotence in the Age of Chaucer
- Published
- Keiper, Hugo, Richard J. Utz, and Cristoph Bode, eds. Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 111-21.
- Description
- Surveys the history and state of scholarship on a key concept of fourteenth-century nominalism--the dialectic of divine omnipotence--and its applications to Chaucerian and other Middle English texts. Warns that a view of the "potentia absoluta" as undermining the self-binding, convenantal relation of God to his established "ordo" can lead scholars astray.
- Alternative Title
- Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.