'Al Nys but Conseil': The Medieval Idea of Counsel and the Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Giancarlo, Matthew Christopher.
'Al Nys but Conseil': The Medieval Idea of Counsel and the Poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4264A.
- Description
- Describes classical, biblical, and patristic notions of "counsel" as background to Chaucer's "transcendentalizing notion of counsel."
- Considers counsel in BD, PF, Mel, TC, KnT, NPT, WBPT, MerT, ManT, and ParsT, arguing that Chaucer aligns human counsel with "consilium Dei" and that he indicates human inability to achieve this ideal.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.