Geoffrey Chaucer's Reception of Alan of Lille.
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
Geoffrey Chaucer's Reception of Alan of Lille.
- Published
- Frank Bezner and Beate Kellner, eds. Alanus ab Insulis und das europäische Mittelalter (Paderborn: Brill, 2022), pp. 179-94.
- Description
- Assesses how Chaucer's references to Alain de Lille’s works in HF, 985–89 and PF, 315–18 distinguish his own poetic project from the Neoplatonic ideals that Alain represents, preferring worldly tidings to the spiritual wisdom of the empyrean, and seeking "common profit," not in Ciceronian service to the state but in dedication to natural procreation. Clarifies Neoplatonic idealism (rooted in Plato's "Timaeus") and Chaucer's skeptical attitude toward it as a late medieval Aristotelian work.
- Contributor
- Bezner, Frank, ed.
Kellner, Beate, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Alanus ab Insulis und das europäische Mittelalter
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
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