J. Simpson, James Simpson

Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry

Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Herausgeber: Minnis, Alastair

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of two important late medieval poems and their philosophical and psychological contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780521471817
• ISBN-10: 0521471818
• Artikelnr.: 21116317

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The outer form of the Anticlaudianus
3. A preposterous interpretation of the Anticlaudianus
4. Alan's philosopher-king
5. Ovidian disunity in Gower's Confessio Amantis
6. Genius's psychological information in Book III
7. The primacy of politics in the Confessio Amantis
8. Poetics
9. Conclusion: varieties of humanist politics.