Chaucer's Eagle: A Contemplative Symbol.

Description: Considers the eagle of HF "in the light of medieval expositions of the soaring eagle as an image of the flight of thought," focusing on the bird as an "intellectual symbol" and its flight as an "act of contemplation" as seen in Gregory's "Moralia in Job" and its commentaries, commentaries on Dante's "Comedy," and commentaries on the opening of Book IV of Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," Chaucer's immediate source for the image.