Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio Amantis
(Book #25 in the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series)
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In this 1995 study James Simpson 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). Simpson locates these works in a cultural context dominated by two kinds of literary humanism: the absolutist, whose philosophical mentor is Plato, whose literary model is Virgil and whose concept of the self is centred in the intellect,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521471818
ISBN13:9780521471817
Release Date:May 1995
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:334 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"
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