The World Grows Old: The Significance of a Medieval Idea
- Author / Editor
- Dean, James [M.]
The World Grows Old: The Significance of a Medieval Idea
- Published
- DAI 32.12 (1972): 6924A.
- Description
- Traces the theme of the decline of the world in biblical and medieval tradition, examining three literary texts: Bernard of Cluny's "De Contemptus Mundi," John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," and ClT, where the virtues of "steadfastness and patience" are "no longer to be found in the world."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale