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Author Simpson, James, 1954-

Title Sciences and the self in medieval poetry : Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and John Gower's Confessio amantis / James Simpson
Published Cambridge, GBR : Cambridge University Press, 1995
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Description 1 online resource (335 pages)
Series Studies in Medieval Literature ; v. 25
Studies in mediaeval literature.
Contents 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
Analysis Latin poetry
Notes Print version record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-314) and index
Subject Alanus de Insulis, d. 1202. Anticlaudianus.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
Comparative literature -- English (Middle) and Latin (Medieval and modern)
Comparative literature -- Latin (Medieval and modern) and English (Middle)
Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism.
Humanists.
Literature and science -- Europe. -- History
Love in literature.
Philosophy, Medieval, in literature.
Poetry, Medieval -- Classical influences.
Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Self in literature.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726 -- To 1500. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012483
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511518781
9780511518782