The Venus of Alanus de Insulis and the Venus of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum,
The Venus of Alanus de Insulis and the Venus of Chaucer
- Published
- James L. Rosier, ed. Philological Essays: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature in Honour of Herbert Dean Meritt (The Hague: Mouton, 1970), pp. 182-95.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer "was deeply influenced by the Platonism of the School of Chartres," focusing on how he and Alanus "treated the figure of Venus." Alanus presents Venus as "the efficient cause of creation," and while this view is mediated for Chaucer by many other sources, he at times "reflects the spirit of Alanus" in KnT, HF, PF, and the proem to Book 3 of TC.
- Contributor
- Rosier, James L., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Philological Essays: Studies in Old and Middle English Language and Literature in Honour of Herbert Dean Meritt.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Knight and His Tale
- House of Fame
- Parliament of Fowls
- Troilus and Criseyde