God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Newman, Barbara.
God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 446 pp.
- Series
- Middle Ages Series.
- Description
- Considers PF (pp. 111-15) as part of an expansive discussion of medieval depictions of Nature as a goddess, observing Chaucer's modifications of Jean de Meun's Natura and commenting on the political implications of the later poem. Also comments on Chaucer's use of the personified Nature elsewhere.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations