Neoplatonic Consolation in Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Erickson, Sandra S. F., and Glenn W. Erickson.
Neoplatonic Consolation in Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Sandra S. F. Erickson and Glenn W. Erickson. Logos e Poesis: Neoplatonismo e Literatura (Natal, Brazil: EDUFRN, Editora da UFRN, 2006), pp. 35-60.
- Description
- Argues that Biblical and Neoplatonic number symbolism conveys the message of BD: that souls return to heavenly happiness. Considers Chaucer's summary of Scipio's dream, traces references to Pythagoras in BD, and identifies places where it capitalizes on numerological tradition.
- Contributor
- Erickson, Glenn W.
- Alternative Title
- Logos e Poesis: Neoplatonismo e Literatura.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations