Nature Into Myth: Medieval and Renaissance Moral Symbols
- Author / Editor
- Steadman, John M.
Nature Into Myth: Medieval and Renaissance Moral Symbols
- Published
- Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1979.
- Physical Description
- xii, 308 pp.
- Description
- In a section called "Chaucer and Medieval Tradition" (pp. 67-114), reprints (with revisions and expansions) several previously published essays by Steadman, all of which explore iconographical or allegorical aspects of Chaucer's works. Includes the following studies: 1) "Chaucer's Eagle: A Contemplative Symbol," PMLA 74 (1959): 172-79; 2) "Chauntecleer and Medieval Natural History," Isis 50 (1959): 236-44; 3) "Flattery and the Moralitas of the Nun's Priest's Tale," Medium AEvum 28 (1959): 172-79; 4) "The Book-Burning Episode in the Wife of Bath's Prologue: Some Additional Analogues," PMLA 74 (1959): 521-25; and 5) "Old Age and Contemptus Mundi in The Pardoner's Tale," Medium AEvum 33 (1964): 121-30.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale