Religion and Philosophy in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Shepherd, Geoffrey.
Religion and Philosophy in Chaucer
- Published
- Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background (London: G. Bell, 1974), pp. 262-89.
- Description
- Surveys the range of religious and philosophical concerns and attitudes of late fourteenth-century England, and gauges Chaucer's investment in them. More moral than dogmatic, Chaucer "never discloses his commitment in religion" and "offers few judgements," although, as a story-teller, he is concerned with causation and its relations with human freedom, a "theological preoccupation of his time," most clearly treated in TC. Includes commentary on the relative Aristotelianism and Augustinianism of Duns Scotus, Ockham, Bradwardine, and Wyclif, discovering Chaucer and the latter to be "curiously complementary."
- Alternative Title
- Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and their Background.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Troilus and Criseyde