Chaucer's 'Natura Naturans' and 'Natura Naturata': Middle English 'Nature' and 'Kynde' to Signify 'Shizen'
- Author / Editor
- Asaka, Yoshiko.
Chaucer's 'Natura Naturans' and 'Natura Naturata': Middle English 'Nature' and 'Kynde' to Signify 'Shizen'
- Published
- Comparative Civilization 29 (2013): 121-38.
- Description
- Elaborates on the distinction between "natura naturans" and "natura naturata" in relation to their Greek, Latin, and Germanic etymology, and examines uses of the words "nature" and "kynde" in BD, HF, PF, and Rom to show the tendency of each word's meaning according to that distinction. In Japanese.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Book of the Duchess
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Romaunt of the Rose