Trouble in the Earthly Paradise : The Regime of Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture
- Author / Editor
- Cadden, Joan.
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.