Demonism, Geometric Nicknaming, and Natural Causation in Chaucer's Summoner's and Friar's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Olson, Glending.
Demonism, Geometric Nicknaming, and Natural Causation in Chaucer's Summoner's and Friar's Tale
- Published
- Viator 42.1 (2011): 247-82.
- Description
- Nicknames for geometric propositions occur in TC ("dulcarnon," "flemyng of wrecches") and one seems to be at play at the end of SumT ("figura demonis"), where the squire's "natural" solution to the problem of dividing the fart opposes the supernatural causation that operates in FrT. The opposition between natural and supernatural causation helps to unify Part 3 of CT and reflects the contemporary concerns of some Lollards and intellectuals, such as Nicholas of Oresme.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale
- Friar and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde