'Oculi carnis, oculi mentis': Why Seeing is Not Believing in Capgrave's 'Life of St. Katherine'
- Author / Editor
- James, Sarah.
'Oculi carnis, oculi mentis': Why Seeing is Not Believing in Capgrave's 'Life of St. Katherine'
- Published
- Review of English Studies 65, no. 270 (2014): 421-37.
- Description
- Observes parallels between the failed sight of Katherine's guide Adrian and that of January in MerT. Argues that Capgrave's use of such problems of vision highlights the human tendency to rely on "oculi carnis" rather than "oculi mentis."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations