A Fourteenth-Century Ecology: 'The Former Age' with Dindimus
- Author / Editor
- Steel, Karl.
A Fourteenth-Century Ecology: 'The Former Age' with Dindimus
- Published
- Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 185-99.
- Description
- Form Age shares thematic elements with Alexander legends, including vegetarianism and prohibitions against agriculture. In these poems humans live as, and eat as, animals do, a contrast to the mastery described in Genesis. The life described in these poems, one of "moral sensitivity without limits," would be not utopian, but wretched.
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Former Age