Chaucer's Clerks and the Value of Philosophy
- Author / Editor
- Watts, William H.
Chaucer's Clerks and the Value of Philosophy
- Published
- Hugo Keiper, Richard J. Utz, and Cristoph Bode, eds. Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 145-55,
- Description
- Discusses the problematic nature of relating late-medieval nominalism to Chaucer's literary texts. Chaucer's representation of philosophizing clerks suggests that he took a dim view of such figures of contemporary life, whom he tended to portray as either devious or irrelevant.
- Alternative Title
- Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.