Chaucer and Science.

Author/Editor
Manzalaoui, Mahmoud.

Title
Chaucer and Science.

Published
Manzalaoui, Mahmoud. "Chaucer and Science." In Derek Brewer, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer. Writers and Their Background (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1975), pp. 228n, 229-30.

Review
Gower's attitude toward science, and his knowledge of its various aspects, were standard for literary men of his time. Unlike Chaucer, who apparently sometimes practiced what he described, Gower seems to draw most of his learning from books. [RFY1981]

Date
1975

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism