The Third Eye of Prudence

Author / Editor
Burrow, John.

Title
The Third Eye of Prudence

Published
J. A. Burrow and Ian P. Wei, eds. Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell, 2000), pp. 37-48.

Description
The image of Prudence's third eye signifies looking to the future and implies that such prudential anticipation of implications and outcomes had "moral and even spiritual significance." Discusses the image and its implications in TC and Mel, as well as in other medieval literature.

Alternative Title
Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Tale of Melibee.