Saturn in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum.
Saturn in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."
- Published
- Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 149-61.
- Description
- Describes the neo-Platonic, Chartrian tradition in which astral influence (or determinism) includes Saturn as a figure of wisdom as well as cold, temporal destiny, suggesting that the depiction of the god/planet in "De Universitate Mundi" by Bernard Silvestris influenced Chaucer's uses of the figure in KnT, one of his additions to Boccaccio's "Teseida."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer und Seine Zeit
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
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