Number Symbolism and Medieval Literature.

Author / Editor
Reiss, Edmund.

Title
Number Symbolism and Medieval Literature.

Published
Medievalia et Humanistica 1 (1970): 161-74.

Description
Includes brief comments (pp. 168-69) on Chaucer's use of the number 29 in GP and ParsP, and, in BD, on the use of 8 (Octovyen) and references to Argus (the "Arab mathematician Al-Kwārizm") and number symbolism.

Chaucer Subjects
Caanterbury Tales--General
Book of the Duchess
Style and Versification