Representing Magic and Science in "The Franklin's Tale" and "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale": Chaucer's Exploration of Connected Topics.
- Author / Editor
- Pigg, Daniel F.
Representing Magic and Science in "The Franklin's Tale" and "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale": Chaucer's Exploration of Connected Topics.
- Published
- In Albrecht Classen, ed. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 489-506.
- Description
- Comments on the "shadowy slippage" between science and magic in FranT and the deceptive practices evident in CYPT suggesting that "Chaucer explored magic and science" in order to distinguish between "phenomena that can be controlled" and those that cannot.
- Alternative Title
- Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale