Experience Versus Authority: Chaucer's Physician and Fourteenth-Century Science
- Author / Editor
- Branca, Geraldine Sesak.
Experience Versus Authority: Chaucer's Physician and Fourteenth-Century Science
- Published
- DAI 32.10 (1972): 5731A
- Description
- Summarizes debates about the relative importance of logical explanation (authority) and practical experience in medieval medical theory, an opposition between doctors and surgeons. Presented as both doctor and surgeon, Chaucer's Physician embodies the opposition, especially as it is inflected by the further opposition of faith and reason.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale