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The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature

George Economou

出版	Harvard University Press, 1972
主題	Nature / General
ISBN	06743553509780674355354
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gk4NAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"Perhaps the most significant allegorical figure of medieval Latin and Vernacular poetry was the goddess Natura. A more complex creature than the goddess Fortuna, she drew upon many strands of classical and Christain thought, from Plato's Timaeus to Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Goerge D. Economou includes in this first full length study of Natura an examination of bother her philosophical background and the literary traditions that contributed to her image. The major part of his work centers on the renaissance of the twelfth century, when a new kind of allegory appeared, especially in the writings of the Platonist scholar-poets of the school of Chartres, Free and often ingenious in plot, these poems both celebrated and explored the nature of the cosmos. Mr. Economou thoroughly analyzes Natura's central role in the philosophical poems of Bernard Silvestris and Alan of Lille. he provides as well a detailed examination of the guises in which she appears in Jean de Meun's continuation of the Roman de la Rose and in Chaucer's Parlement of Foules."-Publisher