Exemplary Rocks.
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Kellie.
Exemplary Rocks.
- Published
- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects (Washington, DC: Oliphaunt, 2012), pp. 91-121.
- Description
- Distinguishes between modern views of rocks as mere objects and medieval understanding of their "virtues," agency, and exemplary value, raising questions about objects in nature and in art. Assesses the tale of the cock and the rock in Robert Henryson and in John Lydgate, and comments on how the black rocks in FranT and a scene in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" show that "abstract notions of 'trouthe' are meaningless unless grounded in the matter of the natural world." Also describes the "Chaucer Pebble" of the British Museum and its reception.
- Contributor
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion