Number Symbolism and the Idea of Order in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Peck, Russell Albert.

Title
Number Symbolism and the Idea of Order in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 25.07 (1964): 2894-95A.

Description
Describes the "metaphysical associations" that numbers had in medieval imagination, and explores Chaucer's uses of number symbolism in his verse forms, the dates and astronomical calculations within his works, numbers associated with his characters, and clusters of signifying numbers. Comments on numbers and numerology in BD, SNT, TC, KnT, MLT, WBP, ClT, MerT, FranT, PardT, Mel, NPT, ParsPT, and Ret.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism