Chaucer's Physics: Motion in "The House of Fame."

Author / Editor
Schneider, Thomas R.

Title
Chaucer's Physics: Motion in "The House of Fame."

Published
In James L. Smith, ed. The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits ([Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Punctum, 2017), pp. 115-29.

Description
Addresses "Chaucer's engagement with the concept of movement" in HF, exploring how three scenes of motion (the eagle's descent, the eagle's lecture on movement and sound, and the whirling House of Rumor) engage with William of Ockham's "Brevis summa libri physicorum" and his "Expositio in libros physicorum Aristotelis."

Alternative Title
The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations