Literature and Experiment in Medieval England, 1200–1500.

Author / Editor
Sarmiento Hinojosa, Bernardo D.

Title
Literature and Experiment in Medieval England, 1200–1500.

Published
Ph.D. dissertation (University of California, Berkeley, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International 86.03(E). Abstract available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qk5p6x6 (accessed February 1, 2025).

Physical Description
209 pp.

Description
Examines "experimentalist modes of inquiry in Middle English literature and natural philosophy," including discussions of HF, LGWP, and other texts for the ways they "stage mental experiments that show how the material world might be perceived and probed for its imperceptible causes."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
House of Fame
Legend of Good Women