Medieval Cosmology and European Literature: Dante and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Cartwright, John [H].
Medieval Cosmology and European Literature: Dante and Chaucer
- Published
- John H. Cartwright and Brian Baker, eds. Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2005), pp. 1-29.
- Series
- Science and Society: Impact and Interaction.
- Description
- Summarizes "Aristotelian cosmology" and describes its role as a structural and thematic device in Dante's "Paradiso." Describes the roles of astrology, the humours, and alchemy in Chaucer's CT, especially in the description of the Physician and in CYPT. Includes a brief bibliographical essay on science in the works of the two poets.
- Contributor
- Cartwright, John, ed.
- Baker, Brian, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.