"Scientia Vera?" Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens.
- Author / Editor
- Cartlidge, Neil.
"Scientia Vera?" Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 55.3 (2020): 279-97.
- Description
- Suggests that Robert Holcot’s commentary on the Book of Wisdom is the immediate source of HF, 991–1017 and 1259–70, and ParsT, 603–7, describing the authors' shared skepticism about the "limits of human knowledge” and discussing specific echoes between their works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
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