Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy.
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Kellie.
Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy.
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- x, 443 pp.; illus.
- Description
- Discusses how Aristotelian natural philosophy--physics--was debated in the Middle Ages, and its influence on the aesthetic practice of Latin and vernacular writers, including Chaucer, Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, and John Lydgate. Argues that these debates focus on the authority of nature in the context of a Christian world, and that "the controversial reception of this science fundamentally changed the kinds of poetic accounts of the world."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism