Reading the Commonplace: Boethius, Chaucer, and the Myth of the Golden Age

Author / Editor
Gwiazda, Piotr.

Title
Reading the Commonplace: Boethius, Chaucer, and the Myth of the Golden Age

Published
Carmina Philosophiae 11: 75-91, 2002.

Description
Reads Form Age as a "document of hope"; its lamentation of present ills recalls the Golden Age of the past but does so to provide a blueprint for a perfect and enduring future.

Chaucer Subjects
Former Age.