Willing to Know God: Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Barr, Jessica.
Willing to Know God: Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages
- Published
- Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description
- x, 262 pp.
- Description
- In chapter 7, "Discrediting the Vision: The House of Fame" (pp. 184-207), Barr argues that HF portrays an active, unreliable visionary, one who unsuccessfully employs cognitive faculties to try to understand the contents of divinely granted vision. Chaucer, the self-conscious author, thereby highlights his own unreliability.
- Alternative Title
- "Discrediting the Vision: The House of Fame'."
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.