Chaucer and Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen): "Perspectiva," Arabic Mathematics, and Acts of Looking.
- Author / Editor
- Jagot, Shazia.
Chaucer and Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen): "Perspectiva," Arabic Mathematics, and Acts of Looking.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 27-61
- Description
- Challenges the limitations of traditional source-and-analogue study, exploring resonances between SqT and the "Kitab al-Manazir" of Ibn al-Haytham /Alhacen to which it alludes (see SqT, 232–45), including discussion of mediating sources in Latin and French, especially Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose." Shows that aspects of Ibn al-Haytham's theory of sight--dependent upon the acts of looking and the intentions of the beholder--recur in SqT, and are also evident in KnT, PhyT, and TC, exemplifying rich intertextuality with Arabic, "Islamicate" learning in late medieval England.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Physician and Hiss Tale