Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan Of Lille's Anticlaudianus And John Gower's Confessio Amantis

by James Simpson

2020-12-29 09:31:30

This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille''s Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower''s English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3). James Simpson locates these works in a cultural ... Read more
This study examines two great poems of the later medieval period, the Latin philosophical epic, Alan of Lille''s Anticlaudianus (1181-3), and John Gower''s English poem, the Confessio Amantis (1390-3). James Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism, in which the concept of self is centered in the intellect and the imagination respectively, and shows the very different modes of thought that lie behind their conceptions of selfhood and education. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.91 X 0.79 in
Print pages336
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date July 1, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521021111

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