The Medieval Attitude toward Astrology, Particularly in England.
- Author/Editor
- Wedel, Theodore Otto.
- Title
- The Medieval Attitude toward Astrology, Particularly in England.
- Published
- Wedel, Theodore Otto. The Mediaeval Attitude toward Astrology, Particularly in England. Yale Studies in English, no. 60. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1920, pp. 76n, 104-05, 113, 116, 122, 132-42, 147, 153.
- Review
- Gower seems to know a great deal about astrology, and uses its vocabulary accurately and extensively in the CA, primarily to make religious points. He may have been the first in English to define astronomy and astrology with their modern denotations, condoned magic when used for a good purpose, was probably not interested in legal aspects of judicial astrology, and knew the French version of the "Secretum Secretorum" and perhaps the Latin "Secretum Astronomiae." [RFY1981; MA]
- Date
- 1920
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism
Confessio Amantis
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