Chaucer, Galilei, Brecht: Sprache und Diskurs im Leben des Galilei

Author / Editor
Johnston, Andrew James.

Title
Chaucer, Galilei, Brecht: Sprache und Diskurs im Leben des Galilei

Published
Walter Delabar and Jorg Doring, eds. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) (Berlin: Weidler, 1998), pp. 239-64.

Description
Assesses Brecht's portrayal of Galileo Galilei, comparing it with Chaucer's attitudes to scholastic science and scientific language in SqT and Astr, Lydgate's assessment of Chaucer's scientific writing, Petrarch's view of scholastic philosophy and science, and Galileo's antischolastic aesthetics. Brecht's portrait is more democratizing than the historical Galileo or his predecessors.

Contributor
Delabar, Walter,
Doring, Jorg,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956).

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Squire and His Tale.
Treatise on the Astrolabe.