Wissenschaft und Dichtung bei Chaucer: Dargestellt Hauptsächlich am Beispiel der Medzin
- Author / Editor
- Kohl, Stephan.
Wissenschaft und Dichtung bei Chaucer: Dargestellt Hauptsächlich am Beispiel der Medzin
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main: Akadermische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1973.
- Physical Description
- 401 pp.
- Description
- Assesses Chaucer's knowledge of medieval sciences, especially astrology and medicine, arguing that CYPT and the Physician's materials indicate that Chaucer "had no expert knowledge of these sciences." Seeks nevertheless to gauge his attitude toward scientific learning, considering dream psychology in HF, lovers' malady in TC and KnT, and physiognomy as a device of realistic characterization in GP, arguing that in each case he "extended the expressive possibilities of existing literary conventions." Includes a summary in English (pp. 381-84).
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Troilus and Criseyde
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Knight and His Tale
- Physician and His Tale
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale