History of the Concept of Mind: Speculations about Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume

Author / Editor
MacDonald, Paul S.

Title
History of the Concept of Mind: Speculations about Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume

Published
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003.

Physical Description
xi, 398 pp.

Description
Includes a chapter entitled "Mind and Soul in English from Chaucer to Shakespeare" (pp. 245-78) that surveys the denotations and connotations of the words "soul" and "mind," with examples drawn a range of authors, including Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies