Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day.
- Author / Editor
- Harvey, E. Ruth.
Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 440-55.
- Description
- Examines the influence of Dominican friar Henry Daniel, and his efforts, along with other English scientists, "to appropriate into their language the scientific learning available in Latin, and to lay the foundations for future development.” Demonstrates how Daniel's appropriation of Latin scientific language applies to Chaucer’s own verse.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations