Philosophy in Parts: Jean de Meun, Chaucer, and Lydgate

Author / Editor
Zeeman, Nicolette.

Title
Philosophy in Parts: Jean de Meun, Chaucer, and Lydgate

Published
Dallas D. Denery II, Kantik Ghosh, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 213-38.

Description
Examines how writings of Jean de Meun and Chaucer focus on issues of scholastic philosophy and skeptical tradition. Refers specifically to Chaucer's uses of "systematic philosophy" as a narrative tool in WBT, PF, KnT, and TC.

Alternative Title
Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale