Number Symbolism and the Idea of Order in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Peck, Russell Albert.
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