Logic and Mathematics: The Oxford Calculators.

Author / Editor
Sylla, Edith Dudley.

Title
Logic and Mathematics: The Oxford Calculators.

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 456-71.

Description
Traces the work and influence of the "Oxford Calculators" (William Heytesbury, Thomas Bradwardine, Walter Burley, Richard Kilvington, Roger and Richard Swineshead, and John Dumbleton), demonstrating how Chaucer "might have picked up some of their ideas." Discusses theological and logical issues of HF and CT.

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Canterbury Tales--General
House of Fame