Trouble in the Earthly Paradise : The Regime of Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture

Author / Editor
Cadden, Joan.

Title
Trouble in the Earthly Paradise : The Regime of Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture

Published
Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature (Chicago and London : University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 207-31.

Description
Cadden traces the "persistent association of nature with moral conduct and social order" in various late medieval texts, from commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics to vernacular poetry. Focuses on PF as an example in which both desire and necessity are presented as part of Nature's realm.

Contributor
Daston, Lorraine, ed.
Vidal, Fernando, ed.

Alternative Title
Moral Authority of Nature.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.