The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Economou, George D.
The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.
- Physical Description
- ix, 213 pp.
- Description
- Traces the uses and development of personified Nature in classical and medieval traditions, focusing on Boethius, Bernard Silvestris, Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Chaucer's relations with all of them in PF. Following tradition, Chaucer presents Nature as "pronuba as well as procreatrix" and "vicaria Dei," the universal vicar of God whose "doctrine of love" is an orderly combination of pleasure, productivity, and marriage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations